Of God's love.

Of God's love, J. I. Packer wrote, "His love is an incomprehensibly vast, bottomless, shoreless sea before which we kneel in joyful silence and from which the loftiest eloquence retreats confused and abashed."

I was rendered speechless upon reading those words as I was preparing a message on the love of God for Sunday morning.  How in the world was I to do justice to this topic when those words haunted me?

The truth is, it is not our job to try to explain God's love, only introduce people to the author.

When God showed His love to us, through Jesus Christ, He made it easy to navigate that shoreless sea.  "Give me Jesus," the words of the song exclaim.  "Give them Jesus," the words of God proclaim.

So how did I communicate the vast, bottomless, shoreless sea of God's love.  I gave them Jesus.

Eph 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.