DEEP BEYOND ALL DEPTH

"And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God" (Ephesians 3:19). 

The love of God for mankind is exceedingly great. It is beyond human comprehension or description. If we are to search the length or breath of God's love for us, we will find that it is unsearchable. If we seek to know the height or depth of it, we will discover that it is unfathomable. The Bible says that the love of God for us, expressed through Christ Jesus surpasses knowledge. Oh what passionate love it is! 

My friend, God loves you unconditionally. That is an absolute statement. Saying that God loves you is to state the obvious. Yet God would have me tell you this apparent fact again and again. God's love for you did not develop somewhere along the line. It is an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3). God has loved you from the beginning, before your life began! Such is the love of God for you that He made you in His own image and after His likeness (Genesis 1:26-27). And he has never regretted that. 

The account of creation also makes it clear that everything that God created was created for man, for the service of the man He loves. The Bible says that God's action in giving "us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness" witness to His superb love for us (Acts 14:17). David observed and was greatly awed by God's excellent love for man. When he considered that all the works of God's hands are made to serve man and have been placed under his feet, David could not help but exclaim: "What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you visit him?" (Psalms 8:4). 

The one that beats them all is the supreme demonstration of God's love for you and me in sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to die for us that we may live with Him and in Him. The Bible says that, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). This truth continues to resonate throughout generations ever since Jesus came to the earth as God's sacrificial Lamb. I pray that this eternal truth will also resonate with you and have a new meaning and impact on you today. 

Because of the love that God has for you, here are three things that I want you to do. First, just as it happened with David, let your heart flow forth in high praise and deep worship to the One who has loved you with an everlasting and unspeakable love. Secondly, because of the manner in which God loves you, I want you to have hope. Those whom God loves must be hopeful in God. If God loves you enough to give you His Son, Jesus, there is nothing good that you require that He will not give you together with Jesus (Romans 8:32). Finally, live for Him. It is, to say the least, a hurtful, disrespectful and abominable sacrilege when those for whom God has made so much sacrifice spare no thought for Him.