For the May 4th worship service special music, newlywed Ayano Kina played "Wonderful Grace of Jesus" on the piano. The Japanese lyrics exclaim in the chorus, "Its width and depth are measureless!"
Most Christians, if you ask if they believe God the Father loved Jesus the Son, they would have no problem answering something like, "Of course!"
But if you were to follow that up with another question: does Jesus love Christians--you-- with the same love, most would hesitate: "Impossible."
But Jesus said: "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you."
We forget: humans don't "love" objects unworthy of it; but true Love depends on the character of the one doing the loving--God will never run out of love for us!
I remember hearing once in a sermon that one of the hardest things for a Christian to believe is just how much God loves him. It'll probably take him a lifetime, the preacher said, so Ephe. 3:18-19 describes knowing the breadth, length, depth, and height of the love of Christ as knowing something that surpasses knowledge, as being way over our heads.
I think the ocean of God's Love is the only place I wouldn't mind drowning.
