Perfect Love

Ephesians 1:22-23 – “And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.”

God the Father, “put all things” in “subjection” under the feet of His beloved Son. The Father is not concerned with having greater authority than His Son, rather, He lovingly, even sacrificially, “puts” all things under the authority of His beloved Son, Christ. Once the Father put all things under His Son’s authority, then He gave His Son to “the church, which is His body”. Christ is the Head and we are the body. Somehow we, the church, His bride, makes Him full – not by any merit or goodness on our account, but by the mercy and grace of the One who “fills all in all”.

What makes this even more beautiful and remarkable is that on the day when there is a new heaven and a new earth, the Son gives it back to the Father – perfect love in full display for all of His elect and the angels to see! And we will fall on our faces in gratitude and reverence to worship the Lamb and the Father, and the Holy Spirit – One in Three, and Three in One. We become His fullness, but only because it is He who “fills all in all”. Amen!