Devotions/thoughts

For this reason 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.

Eph. 3:14-19

Read this this morning and decided to head to Studylight.org to look up some background stuff-- here's some interesting stuff I found.

Comprehend "katalamba/nw"
1. to lay hold of
a. to lay hold of so as to make one's own, to obtain, attain to, make one's own, to take into one's self, appropriate
b. to seize upon, take possession of

Know "ginosko"
1. to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of, perceive, feel
a. to become known
2. to know, understand, perceive, have a knowledge of
3. A Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman
4. to become acquainted with, to know

In English, I think we tend to treat know and comprehend as almost the same word, so I thought it was interesting that the Greek has such different meanings....that we are not only called to know and understand in an intimate way (and be known by it), but also to take a hold of it and make it our own....