And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Ephesians 3:18-20

 

We may never understand it, but when we come to know it, it changes everything.

One author called it “Crazy Love.”[1] How could God’s love for us have no beginning, no end, no limits, no conditions? God’s love, described in the Bible, is so unlike our human love.

When it comes to knowing love, our parents first represent it to us from places of their own brokenness. Later, we mix things like the approval of others and performance up with love. Spiritual leaders may incorrectly burden us with practices that they say God’s love is conditional on. It’s easy to think that God loves us more when we’re doing or not doing certain things. But the Bible teaches that there is no way that we can make ourselves more loveable to God and no way that we can make themselves unlovable to God (I John 4:19, Ephesians 2:4-5).

Tim Keller explained, “To be a Christian means there is a moment in which, you cross a line and God actually brings His love at a certain point in time into your life and it changes you forever.” [2] The Bible says, “Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong” (Ephesians 3:17). When God’s transformative love enters our lives, the Bible says that we “will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God” (Ephesians 3:20b).

Have you experienced this love that has no limits? Today is the day that you can ask God to transform you with His incomparable love.

[1] Chan, Francis. Crazy Love Book, crazylovebook.com/. Accessed 21 Nov. 2023.

[2] “A Transcription of Tim Keller’s ‘Beholding the Love of God.'” A Transcription of Tim Keller’s “Beholding the Love of God,” 22 Dec. 2015, reformedevangelist.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-transcription-of-tim-kellers_22.html.