I just cant get over this verse. I have read it over and over and it is too powerful.

Here are the parts that stick out like mad to me:

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. - Ephesians 3:17-19 (NIV)

To dwell in my heart...Oh how I have not let him in. Or get in the way of sins and do not hear him knocking. I mean dwell is a huge word. Its almost living, or find a home, set up base, etc. For Christ to dwell in my heart.

Rooted and established in love...Love a cornerstone, a foundation? established in love, not have love qualities or follow love, or be love like....but established and rooted in love. A tree with rooots into love not the earth. Love more solid than the earth?

Grasp how long and hoe wide and how high and how deep is the love of christ...I have a wild imgination, or I can. But this is one time I cant even try to begin to fathom the magnitude of his love. The closer I draw the less I know as the love grows faster than I can learn it.

This love that surpasses knowledge...to know Christ and his ways isnt enough? To know what do do when or right from wrong? To know the cure for the common cold? None of these are greater than love? Love surpasses this too even?

So what do I know of love? Not much. As it is being re-defined and more is learned in what seems every day. That now I do not know. It is vast, it is powerful. It is so much more than a four letter word that I grew up to accept.

This verse is very deep. I am reading it over and over and still not even scratching the surface of this at least to start a basis for understanding. I read this in several versions, KJV, NKJC, NIV, NLT, NASB, but it was the NIV that stood out the best.

I long for this love that is spoken of several times in these its deep man!!