Lion and Lambs

Eph 3:14-18

14 When I think of the wisdom and scope of His plan, I fall down on my knees and pray to the Father of all the great family of God-some of them already in heaven and some down here on earth- 16 that out of His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you the mighty inner strengthening of his Holy Spirit. 17 And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; 18 and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is SO GREAT that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself.
TLB

When we feel a strong feeling toward someone, be it love, gratitude, or others, we often find ourselves challenged to express to that person the strength of our feeling, with the limited words in our human vocabulary. I often find myself “stuck” when trying to express the depth of my feeling to another. Verse 18 makes me imagine God trying with passion to describe how great His love for us is, wanting us to understand how He feels for us, then He basically says, “There are no words, no way for Me to make you understand how great My love for you is, because it cannot even be measured, it will NEVER end.” We have all heard it said, “NEVER is a really long time.” For those who are saved, that is a time frame beyond our comprehension. We cannot fathom the perfect love that God, our perfect Father, has for us. In this we can walk in confidence, knowing He will never leave us, that His love is vast and unconditional. What a comfort that knowledge is.