Ephesians 3:17-18 “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ…”
As I rolled out of bed this morning and began my quiet time, I had an interesting thought. “God loves me more than I’ll ever love him.” I’m not sure why this thought flashed across my mind, but I haven’t been able to think about anything else since. I’ve been struggling to understand what that really means. At first, I felt sad and guilty be
cause I knew it was true; I would never really love God as much as he loves me. I thought maybe I should do something about that and force myself to love him more. But, then again, when love is obligatory it isn’t really love. Slowly, it dawned on me what an amazing thing it is that God loves me so very much. In fact, because he loves me more than I’ll ever love him, my feelings slowly turned from sad to something to glad. What an amazing gift, what a wonderful feeling to know that I’m so loved by God. Eventually, I realized that the reason I should want to love him more is because he already loves me more than I’ll ever know. And you know what; he loves you just the same. That’s good news that’s definitely worth dwelling on.