Thought for Today: “Knowing God’s Love”

What do people want more than anything else the church can offer? They want to know God’s unwavering love.

And the fullness of God’s love for us is only found in and through belief in Jesus Christ.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

And while they may not know it, but it is powerful and can fill the entirety of their being with God’s love for them, a love that surpasses anything the world or others could offer. And the great thing is that He fills us to overflowing with this unconditional and unwavering love.

The Apostle Paul gives us this understanding in his prayer to the Ephesian Church.

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:16-19)

And such a love is not only without a price tag, but it is priceless.

“How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!” (Psalms 36:7a)