Comprehension Updated
Posted by Kevin on January 28, 2009 under Musings | 
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So I was visiting my buddy Ryan’s nifty blog over at http://peopleonahill.org , and he helped redifine my understanding of the word “comprehend”. How’s this for a earth mover?
comprehend:
- to lay hold of so as to make one’s own, to obtain, attain to, to make one’s own, to take into one’s self, appropriate
- to seize upon, take possession of
Yeah. I was pretty blown away, too. Blown away by what, you ask? By the simple real definition of a word? … No, not by that alone, but by its connection with the following passage from Scripture:
Eph 3:14-19 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height–to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Pretty cool, huh?