Ephesians 1:23 · World English Bible
Ephesians 1:23 Meaning Which Is His Body
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
What does Ephesians 1:23 mean?
Air fills a room without being any single object in it, present in the far corner and against the near wall at once. So one presence is said to fill everything everywhere, lacking nothing and leaving no gap.
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Air fills a room without being any single object in it, present in the far corner and against the near wall at once. So one presence is said to fill everything everywhere, lacking nothing and leaving no gap. The heart that feels small and left out has misread the room, imagining an empty space where none exists.
A person can practice this by pausing in some plain moment, a crowded bus, a quiet kitchen, and letting it land that the same fullness reaching the horizon is also reaching this exact spot. Belonging to a larger whole is not earned by being noticed. It is simply where a life already stands.
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Live Ephesians 1:23 today
- Sometime today, sitting alone with your coffee or waiting for a page to load, stop for ten seconds and let it sink in that whatever holds the whole sky is also holding this chair, this kitchen, this ordinary minute.
- When you are with someone and the conversation goes quiet, resist filling it. Let the two of you just be in the same room together, nothing to prove, nothing missing from either of you.
- In the meeting where your idea gets passed over, or the group chat where nobody answers you, catch the feeling that you are on the outside of something. Then remind yourself that you misread the room. There was no outside to begin with.
Where in your day do you feel left out of something you were never actually outside of?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 4
The Tao is described as an empty vessel that is never used up, present everywhere and always available, holding everything without being any one thing in it.
Upanishads · Chandogya
The teaching "you are that" says the vast reality is not somewhere far off being measured out to the deserving. It is already the substance of the one asking about it.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
He reminds himself that one nature runs through the whole world and that he is a limb of it, not a visitor to it, so nothing that belongs to the whole can be missing from his own place in it.
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