Just-Jesus-And-Me Club: Now Accepting Applications

There’s a little more room in the Just-Jesus-and-Me Club of late. I have canceled my membership because it just wasn’t delivering the desired results.

The biggest result I was hoping for was to know God better. You know, people just keep interrupting and getting in the way and I’m trying to know God.

We are doing “How People Change” in our Community Group and I’m on chapter three in my homework and this week it was talking about community and it pulled up a Scripture I have been meditating on out of sheer bewilderment and enchantment over the last year:

 Ephesians 3:14-19

“… I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith — that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

 That bolding is mine. Because I have been wondering for a long time, and asking God to help me understand his love. I need strength for that. To know something that surpasses knowledge. What kind of knowing goes beyond knowledge? I want that. I want to know Christ’s love that is bigger than a bunch of facts in my head.

Somehow I have missed an entire phrase in that bolded section, though, as I have pondered this in my heart over the last year: “together with all the saints.”

Oh. So understanding Jesus’ gigantic love for us is a community project.

By isolating myself from others, I isolate myself from a new depth of knowledge in knowing Jesus’ love for me and for us all.

That is not what I want at all. I want to know Jesus’ love as much as possible. There is a time for the prayer closet, but there has to be time to get out and live with the other saints.

By the way, Deacon Amy Lockman will be teaching on this portion of Ephesians at the Women’s Retreat this weekend… if you are coming, read Ephesians ahead of time and get familiar with it!

Peace.