I have been doing good reading lately and came across this great insight from Bernard of Clairvaux, quoted in Richard Foster’s book Prayer:
“If you are wise therefore you will show yourself a reservoir and not a canal. For a canal pours out as fast as it takes in; but a reservoir waits till it is full before it over flows, and so communicates its surplus…We have all too few such reservoirs in the Church at present, thought we have canals in plenty.”
I thought back to this image of a reservoir as I was reading in Ephesians this morning, from chapter 3:18-19 where Paul prays “[that you] 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.” What a great image for this prayer that we will know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that we will be filled with what we cannot possibly contain! Continue reading “Filling Up”