Christometry - The Length of the Love of Christ
The love of Christ was not formed in response to what you needed — it was purposed before anything existed to need it.
In the opening article of this series, I introduced the word Christometry as a framework drawn from Ephesians — the measure of the gift of Christ (Ephesians 4:7) expressed across four dimensions in Paul’s prayer: the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of the love of Christ (Ephesians 3:17–18). In the second article we traced the breadth — how wide the love of Christ reaches, from the eternal predestinating will of God, through the demolished wall between Jew and Gentile, through the cosmic gathering of all things in one, to the individual believer filled with the Spirit. The breadth showed us the scope of the love of Christ.
The length asks a different question entirely. Not how wide, but how long. And the answer Ephesians gives — reaching beyond Ephesians into Hebrews and the Psalms and the counsel of the eternal God — is not measured in years. The length of the love of Christ is the length of the One whose love it is.
Before the Foundation of the World: The Eternal Counsel
When Paul wants to establish the length of the love of Christ, he does not begin with history. He begins before it.
