Have you thought about God’s Love

“and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭3‬:‭19‬ ‭ESV‬‬ 

Have you ever deeply thought about the love of God?

 I guess love is probably on the top of my mind as my husband and I are fostering our two grand girls. They have lived with us for 8 months now. It has been life changing for us and knowing God loves us as his children has been a comfort these days. His gracious hand on our lives has taught us we are taken care of but can we ever know how deeply God loves us? 

 We will find it hard to grasp the love of God with our limited minds. Gods love is limitless, God’s love is “agape” love. It is not a reciprocal kind of love. It isn’t the love that is easy to give because it requires the Spirits work in us and even still I am not sure we can ever grasp it. In Ephesians, Paul says it surpasses knowledge. This love isn’t the same love we give to our spouse or kids. We can love so deeply but in our flesh we want some return for it. We want our spouse or the person whom we have loved on to reciprocate that love or give us something back. It’s our human nature and everyone likes to be appreciated, don’t we? God’s love isn’t that way. He loves without any strings attached. I mean we can love someone and do all the things that go along with loving that person and tell ourself we don’t expect to be lavished with love back or even appreciated. But is that really true? 

 In our most basic nature I believe we find it hard but that’s where surrendering our life to Christ comes in. We can only love with this agape kind of love by prayer and letting the Spirit’s power do His work in us. Only then we will find our way to love like Christ knowing it is for His glory not our own. It will be with intentional action and no expectations. It isn’t easy and I would even say it is a selfless kind of love that only points to Jesus. There will be blessings and joy as we walk worthy of this calling by faith and obedience to the Lord. 

My encouragement is to keep praying and trusting God’s love will carry us as we learn to love like Christ.