“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power,
together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and
high and deep is the love of Christ …”
Ephesians 3:17b-18 (NIV)
Your heart answers to what it loves. Whatever you make much
time for in your life ends up being the king of your life.
Ultimately, you crown what captivates you.
Is Love Himself your King, or have you overthrown Love
Himself - only to throw your heart at the feet of cheap lesser loves?
What if Jesus stands before you now, heart bound to yours,
eyes searching yours, heart whispering to yours: Am I the King of your
heart? What have you crowned with your time, attention, interest and heart even
though it can’t raise you to real life in the end? Have you seen what I have
done for you - to move you closer to My reviving heart? Has My love moved and
changed your heart? Have you listened to all the ways I’ve been wooing you away
from that which doesn’t satisfy and back toward divine love, holy wholeness and
the fullest life?
These questions beg for a real answer.
He is the One who lived the perfect way you always hoped you
would, and now He offers the record of His life to be your life. He’s the One
who died the painful way that could have been yours, and He has absorbed all
your pain as His own. He’s the One who heals broken hearts, the One who gives
sight for every single one of your blind spots. He’s the One who walks on the
waves of your every storm, feeds you soul-sustaining bread in the midst of a
multitude of troubles, crushes the head of every hissing lie, and raises your
dead hopes back to life.
This is your everyday resurrection, your everyday reality,
your everything. Don’t miss it.
Jesus is your King, Redeemer, Restorer, Sustainer, Lamb,
Lover and Lord - the only One whose passion has ever loved you to death and
back, resurrecting to offer you to the safest, realest life. He is life.
And He has saved us for Himself.
Don’t miss Him. Pilgrimage into the palace of
His presence and bow down.
“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in
love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how
wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ …” (Ephesians
3:17b-18).
Jesus is the One who gets all of you - all your loyalty and
complete allegiance, your whole heart, whole life, whole self - so you get to
be whole. The King died to be the King of your heart … the King of your
everything.
This changes everything - starting right now.
King of all, You traded heaven for a cross to call our
hearts Your home. Forgive us when we crown distractions, fears or ambitions
instead of You. Open our eyes to see what You’ve done, stirring us with Your
love that heals, calls and makes us whole. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
- Ann Voskamp
(Provided by “Proverbs 31 Ministries”)