Thought For Today: “The Full Extent of God’s Love”

“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.” (Ephesians 3:17b-18)

We really don’t have anything to compare God’s love to. We can’t compare it to a parent’s or a spouse’s love. As Paul tells us, God’s love is beyond comparison

Even though we slap God in the face with deliberate sin and speak irreverently about Him in jokes and exclamations, He still loves us. What is the depth of God’s love for us?

“God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

I love what Corrie ten Boom said about the depth of God’s love. She said, “There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.”

As for the breadth of God’s love, it is so wide that it embraces everyone, regardless of race, gender, language, or religious practice.

The width of God’s love is found in Christ. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

To grasp how wide, long, high, and deep Christ’s love is, go to the cross and look at His outstretched arms as He says, “This much.”