Going Deep

Do you ever catch yourself looking at a circumstance and thinking that you are seeing the entire situation? For example, I have for a long time known that God loves me. However, lately I have been awestruck at how much God loves me. No I haven’t received some major answer to prayer, nor have I mysteriously received some financial or personal blessing. It wasn’t a big aha moment but rather a thousand ways He uses His still small voice to remind me He loves me. So often we can accept the surface value of that love, thinking we know it. However, we often base that knowledge on our understanding or the thought that of course God loves, after all He is God. Do we ever take time to consider what it really means? I think we often weigh and measure it in our own understanding. “God will love me if I am...or if I do...”. Without really trying we can limit our experience of God’s love. If we just took some time to be still with Him and to go deep we would hear how loud the still small voice resonates. God is faithful to answer if we ask. Take some time this week to sit with Him and to ask how deep is his love? My life prayer is that we all, myself included, would know the depths of His unending covenant love, freely given not because of us but by His choice. “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭3:14-19‬ ‭