How Can We Be Rooted And Grounded In Ahab (Love) (Ephesians 3:17)?

How Can We Be Rooted And Grounded In Ahab (Love) (Ephesians 3:17)?

After explaining to the believers at Ephesus the incredible new life that Yahuah has given them by grace through faith in Yahusha HaMashiach  (Ephesians 1:1—3:13), Paul adds that he prays for them (Ephesians 3:14). Part of Paul’s prayer includes the statement that they are rooted and grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17).

Part of Paul’s prayer is this: “That Mashiach 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 ahab of Mashiach that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of Aloah” (Ephesians 3:17–19).

Paul recounts how he is praying for the Ephesians to the Aloah who is the Creator of all of humanity—the One from whom every family on earth derives its name (Ephesians 3:15). This One has the power to fulfill a prayer request, so Paul is emphasizing that this is not an empty prayer, nor is it offered to someone who cannot grant the request. This One has riches and glory—another evidence that Yahuah has the power to answer prayer (Ephesians 3:16a). Paul asks this Great One that He would grant the Ephesian believers “to be strengthened with power through His Ruach (Spirit) in the inner man” (Ephesians 3:16). Paul understood that Yahuah has given His Ruach HaQodesh to every person who has believed in Yahusha Mashiach (Ephesians 1:13–14), and he understood that the power of Aloah in a person’s life would come through that Ruach HaQodesh within (see 1 Corinthians 12:7). Paul asks that the believers would be strengthened in their inner persons by the Ruach (Spirit) within them.

Paul also recognized that the strengthening he was asking for comes through knowing Mashiach and His ahba (love) better (Ephesians 3:19). He is not asking that Yahuah do something mystical or miraculous, but that He would allow them to really understand the things of Aloah and of Mashiach that had already been revealed to them. Paul asks Yahuah that they be strengthened in this knowledge but acknowledges that they have already been rooted and grounded in ahba (love) (Ephesians 3:17).

This rooting and grounding in love was something Yahuah had already accomplished for the Ephesians (and for all believers), as Paul has explained, especially in Ephesians 1:4–14. As indicated by the verbs errizomenoi (“being rooted”) and tethemeliomenoi (“being grounded”) in Ephesians 3:17 and the perfect passive participle usage of both, Yahuah Himself has accomplished our rooting and grounding in love. Because we are rooted and grounded in love, and we have this incredible new life by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8–9), Mashiach can be at home in our hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:17a).

There is some responsibility on our part, though, as Paul exhorts that we should let the word of Mashiach dwell richly in us—we should actively be pursuing fellowship with Him through His word. Mashiach already dwells in us (through His Ruach HaQodesh), and we should allow Him to be at home in us. One of the results of this kind of growth and maturing is that we may be able to comprehend how great is His love—so great, in fact that it surpasses being known, yet Paul prays that we will truly know it (Ephesians 3:18–19).

Because Yahuah has rooted and grounded us in His own Ahab (Love), we can live in relationship and fellowship with Him, getting to know His amazing love better each day. That is what Paul is praying for the Ephesians, and that is the richness of our inheritance in Eloah, as He has baraked (blessed) us also with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Mashiach (Ephesians 1:3). One of those great blessings is the fact that Yahuah has rooted and grounded us in His Ahba – love.

Source:

https://www.gotquestions.org/rooted-and-grounded-in-love.html