"And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God." - Eph. 3:18-19 (NLT)
This weekend we celebrate and remember our salvation. As a father I understand my love for my children and how that applies to God's love for us. God would be willing to do anything to save us from a eternal separation from him. After understanding that I move on to something I can't comprehend as well. Allowing one of my children to die in place of someone else is unfathomable. My human mind just does not wrap around that at all. In that though I look at the above scriptures.
It is a love that is so big and wide that our minds can't perceive it. When looking at the Grand Canyon although I know how big it is my brain and eyes can't take it all in. I almost looks like a painting that you would look at in a art museum. It came to my realization that the only true way to understand the depth is to take a chopper ride in it. Only then could we sort of understand it's size. I now equate that to God's love. Looking at it from a human view only allows us to understand partial dimensions. The only true way to dive in with our whole life. Christ is that guide that shows us the way. It starts at the cross.
Listen to the song on my blog called "How He Loves Us"
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
- C.S. Lewis
1 comment:
Jamie,
What a beautiful message you brought with this post. It made me think of these words:
"How refreshing to know You don’t need me,
How amazing to find that You want me
So I’ll stand on Your truth, and I’ll fight with Your strength.
From the song "In Me" by Mark Hall.
And it made me proud of you and Buffy again. It is so good to see that He is in you, and it is His amazing grace that works in and through you. It made me recall our mission trip to Hickiwan last year, and how God put an amazing message in you which you delivered that Sunday morning at the last moment. I remember sitting there in awe...not of you...but of God's presence in the room...and in his work in you. After the sermon, I could only sit and weep, I was speechless for what seemed like a long time. That morning I was proud of the man you have become, and that you are showing the way to all of us...God showed me how His Holy Spirit is working in this world...and I am so grateful to Him for allowing me that view. I will never forget that day, and will carry that memory forever because I know that you and your family are on the right road. Thank you for following your heart and God's call...you are making a difference in this world.
I love you.
Dad
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