Do you know how much God loves me and you?
It's both an easy and a hard question. It has a simple enough answer but can be hard to really wrap your head around. Answer: God's love for me and you is tremendous. Easy, simple. But how big and how tremendous is his love? Is it like Ross and Rachel big? Is it Amy and Rory big? Is it Wash and Zoe big?
Here is what God has been telling me this weekend about his love. It is bigger than the human imagination. Our brains are wired to make connections. Connections between images and ideas, colors and sound, motion and stillness. It is in our very nature to attempt to compare the unknown to the known. And God's love is a big unknown. Not in the sense that it is hidden from us, but in a way that we don't fully understand it. So, we try to make a connection to God's love to something terrestrial that we can grasp. God's love is a father's love or the love of a shepherd towards his flock. Both are perfectly good and biblical connection we can make to God's love, but don't think for one second that that is where God's love ends. God himself is holy, separate, and undefinable, so what makes us think that his love is any different.
So let's stop trying to write a seminar in our heads whenever we start thinking about why God loves us. Isn't it enough that he does? Can't we rest for twenty minutes in the confidence and peace that being in the loving arms of God provides? You see, God showed me this week that he doesn't want me to prove that I understand him or his commandments or his love. He wants he to love him and devote myself to him for what I know about him and have my faith take care of unknowns and the indefinables. And what I do know about God is simple: he loves you and me more than anything in creation.
Thanks for reading and have a great week everyone!
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