Ephesians 3:18-19 (Nlt) 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.
Yesterday I believe God was encouraging us to keep praying this prayer (from verses 14-21) until we have a revelation of how much He does love us. So as I was thinking about it, I realised I needed to look at the dimensions of God’s love at bit more closely to help my understanding. I expect you’ve had lots of thoughts already but I hope it helps.😊
Apostle Paul starts with how wide God’s love is, how all encompassing it is. No matter what colour skin we have, what culture, class or country we come from, rich or poor, clever or not, male or female, young or old, God’s love is so wide it embraces us all. No matter how wide our interests, how wide our influence they can never go beyond the love God has for us.
God’s love is long. Whether we have one day to live or we reach 120 years, God’s love has stretched out in front to be there waiting for us every day, to strengthen and uphold us. His love goes ahead and keeps no record of our wrongs, and is also long-suffering. How thankful I am for that!
God’s love is high. God lives in the heavens but He also lives in our hearts by faith. We can fly at 33,000 feet or beyond into space and still never go beyond the love of God! He encourages us to let Him take us as high in Him as we can go, and His love will still be there enfolding and protecting us.
God’s love is deep. I love the thought of that. However low we have fallen, whether we feel like the bottom has fallen out of our world, or we’ve made a mess of things or we’re so sick or we’re at rock bottom, God’s love is there already waiting to lift us up. Isn’t that encouraging and wonderful?
So next time you read through these verses, take a minute and meditate on the dimensions of God’s love and remember they are for you personally. They’re not hypothetical, or only for the select few. They are there for you and me to get a handle on, and believe, how much God loves us. Praise His wonderful name. Thank You Lord for loving us the way You do. Amen.
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