How Wide, How High, How deep

“May you be able to comprehend, together with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth of the love of Christ.” – Ephesians 3:18

How Deep

To understand God’s love, we must first make God as big as we possibly can in our thoughts.

Psalm 145:3 says:

“Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; His greatness no one can fathom.”

Elevated thoughts — go big. Your biggest thoughts will still never reach the greatness of God.

Force yourself to make God as big as you possibly can in your mind. Challenge yourself to think elevated thoughts about Him.

In Bible study, we started talking about truth.

Truth humbles a person.

A humble person is in the right condition to receive God’s love.

Good soil = humble heart

A good way to become humbled is to think about God’s greatness, His constancy, His power. His holiness.

For the past few days, I’ve been trying to discipline my thoughts to think big thoughts about God.

Here are some that I came up with.

God is the Creator. He made heaven and earth, with the depths of the sea and the heights of the mountains.

God made the sun. Humans can’t even properly study the sun. If you look at it through a telescope, you can go blind, and if you come close enough, you burn. But God made this sun. How strong and heat-resistant must He be? How great? And yet our earth revolves around the sun without falling.

In nature there are tiny worms with so much detail — with organs, little eyes, feelers, and legs.

The animals, fish, and birds are intelligent — that also points to our wise God.

There is so much variety.

God created things that smell nicel.

The water cycle.

A tree.

If I peel an apple, it turns brown within 30 minutes. But the skin God gave the apple keeps it white for days after you pick it from the tree.

An apple.

Flowers — wow. So many flowers. So many colors. So many scents. So many sizes. So much detail.

God is so holy. There is no sin in Him. He has never lied or cursed.

He fills the whole earth.

He tells the water where to go.

He tells the deer when to give birth.

He sustains His entire creation.

There are always 24 hours in a day. He is so constant.

Seasons.

A seed is planted in the ground and a tree grows, God has life in Him, he creates living things.

The wind — where does it come from?

Moses’ face shone when he saw God’s back.

If you make God as big as you can — as holy as you can imagine — think how good He must smell, better than anything you’ve ever smelled; more beautiful than anything you’ve ever seen; holier than your mind can comprehend.

When you reach the point where all you want to do is worship and praise and magnify Him. Then I think the next immediate step is to think about what this God came to do on earth.

Now shift your mind to how this God laid aside His divine glory, left His heavenly splendor, exchanged His greatness for a human body — was born here on earth, ate, walked, sweated, became dirty, became human — to save us.

To hang on a cross, totally crushed - unrecognizably punished, crushed, — for you, for me.

Philippians 2:6–8:

“Who, being in very nature God … made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant … He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death — even death on a cross.”

The Creator became part of creation.

The King became a servant.

The Holy One carried sin.

The Source of life entered death.

He descended into our pain, our brokenness, and our judgment.

God loves you with a holy love.

God loves you with an unconditional love.

God loves you with a stubborn love.

God loves you with a deep love.

Now we are maybe starting to begin to come close to understanding the depth of His love for us — at any cost love. He spared nothing to love us, to be united with us. He sent His only Son — for you, for me

How High

Psalm 103:11 :

“For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His faithful love toward those who fear Him.”

His love has height.

And this height shows us something : God’s love begins above us, not within us.

The Height of His Love: From Earth to Heaven

The distance between earth and heaven is immeasurable to us. We cannot climb it. We cannot reach it. It is beyond human ability.

And yet God’s love bridges that entire distance.

His love was not born on earth. It was born in heaven.

It is not there because people are lovable. It is there because God is love.

His love begins where He dwells — in glory, holiness, and perfection — and stretches down to reach us in our weakness.

The height of His love means it is not limited by human instability. It is not measured by how much we deserve it, how good or bad we are. It is anchored in God’s eternal love nature.

How Wide

The Width of His Love: From Eternity to Eternity

Psalm 103:17 says:

“But the faithful love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him.”

His love stretches across time itself.

It began before your first breath.

It began before the foundations of the earth were laid. It was always there.

It will continue long after your last breath.

There has never been a moment when His love did not exist. There will never be a moment when it ceases.

His love was there before creation.

His love will remain even if the world should pass away.

This means His love is not a reaction. It is an eternal reality. It is truth. It cannot change. It cannot be destroyed or diminished.

God loves you so deeply.

Make God big in your thoughts. Humble yourself before Him. Receive the immeasurable, above understanding, befor time and up into heaven love that God has for you!