Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways! Romans 11:33, New Living Translation.
Oh, but to seek and to search and to know God and His love more and more is to find soul changing discovery and answers through His amazing creation.
The Bible tells us, You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart, Jeremiah 29:13.
Isn’t Love what we’re all searching for? God says, when we seek Him (His Love), with all our heart, we will find Him.
Samuel Trevor Francis wrote of God’s deep love in a hymn from 1875,
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free! Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me, Is the current of Thy love, Leading onward, leading homeward, To my glorious rest above!(O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus).
Like an ocean, deep and vast, God’s love is like the current surrounding those who step in, and walk deeper, deeper still. Those who desire, know Him more. God is love.
God’s love is a Person. We learned that from Reveal #1. God Sent His Son for us because we needed a Rescuer from our sin. We all have sin. The Bible uses the word “all” have sin, (Rom. 3:23).
There are not “good” people and “bad” people, NO! There are “all” people. The Bible says, we’ve all turned from God. We are one people,
in need of Love.
Perhaps the ocean is a good picture for us all. Do we stand on the shore without getting our feet wet? Are we satisfied to simply look from afar? There is a great separation.
Or do we take steps into the water, to walk deeper still.
Do we walk in depth to our knees? To our neck?
Risking loss of our own balance, our own sure step, that we might speak as the hymn from our heart past our lips: O the deep, deep love of Jesus, Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free! Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!
Even to those who don’t know Him now. God is love. He waits that they might know He is love.
The moment something happens in our heart and we agree with God that we need a Savior, the moment that we invite Him to come in our lives, He washes away the guilt. All of it, completely.
He comes in. Erases the past. He releases the fear. He gives us hope to start over anew. God gives us a song, Underneath me, all around me, Is the current of Thy love, Leading onward, . . .
This is the unsearchable mercy and grace of God, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (New Living Translation, read it aloud for yourself often (and someone else, very soon. Emphasis added). . .
(God’s) Love is patient and (God’s love is) kind. ( God’s) Love is not jealous, (God’s love is never) boastful or proud or rude.
(God’s love) . . . does not demand its own way. (God’s love) . . . is not irritable, and . . .
it keeps no record of being wronged.
(God’s love) . . . does not rejoice about injustice . . .
but (God’s love) rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
(God’s) Love never gives up, (on anyone),
never loses faith, (in anyone),
(God’s love) is always hopeful,
(God’s love) . . . endures through every circumstance.
God’s love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:8.
There is nothing human about God’s love. His ways are not like ours. God’s love doesn’t depend on us. God is love.
Agape.
Unconditional.
Other’s centered love.
It’s alive on its own. God’s love is, “I love you.”
It’s like an ocean saying, “Come on in!”
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, Love of every love the best! ‘Tis an ocean full of blessing, ‘Tis a haven giving rest!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, ‘Tis a heav’n of heav’ns to me, And it lifts me up to glory, For it lifts me up to Thee!
This new day, let’s say together, “I’m diving in!”
And sing from our hearts, this age old hymn: O the deep, deep love of Jesus, Spread His praise from shore to shore! How He loveth, ever loveth, Changeth never, never more!
How He watches o’er His loved ones, Died to call them all His own, How for them He intercedeth, Watcheth o’er them from the throne!
O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, Samuel Trevor Francis, 1875.