April 04

Knowing God’s Love

May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, and how deep his love really is.

Ephesians 3:17b, 18 (NLT)

Last year, our church began a seven-week study on knowing God’s love. In Sunday school, we illustrated the topic by playing a game seen on the David Letterman show: Will it sink or will it float? Items were held up and people guessed what would happen. The objects were then dropped into a fish bowl. So, what happened? The strawberry? It floated. The egg? It sank. The bottle of Gatorade? It floated too. And on it went.

The purpose of our game was to point out the one constant—the water. The water remained the same regardless of what different objects were doing in it.

Just so, when it comes to life, we may be up—experiencing the best of life, or we may be down—floundering at the bottom, or we may be somewhere in between. But no matter where we are or what we are doing, we are absolutely surrounded by the depths of God’s refreshing love. It is the one constant. He always loves us, it’s always the same—no matter what!

Lord, let me know the greatness of Your surrounding love. Amen.