Ephesians 3:14-21 / Luke 12:49-53
For someone to be called an "expert" it usually means that he has a good knowledge of the subject or the work that he is doing.
Yet that does not necessarily mean that he knows everything about the topic in question in which he is an "expert".
Even when it comes to the Bible, as much as there are scripture scholars and Bible experts to explain the meaning of the difficult passages, yet today's gospel passage can leave us rather perplexed.
If Jesus said that He was in distress over what was to come, then He had surely left us in distress over His words.
Even if we do understand the length and breadth, and the height and depth of His words, we will still have to go through what Jesus went through in order to understand what He really meant.
That was the prayer of St. Paul for the Ephesians, that God the Father will give them the power of the Spirit for their hidden self to grow strong through faith.
Then they will have the strength to grasp the length and breadth, the height and depth of the love of Christ which is beyond all knowledge and to be filled with the utter fullness of God.
Let us also pray for that strength to grasp the length and breadth, the height and depth of the love of Christ.
We may not be an "expert" on the Bible. What we need to be is a true disciple of Christ and follow Jesus through the length and breadth, the height and depth in carrying our crosses.