So Great

Psalm 103: 11 says, “For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his love for those who fear him…”

Can you measure the distance from here to the “heavens?”  And can your eye even see the galaxies up there beyond ours?  We can’t even see past the end of our street, and yet there’s a whole earth that surrounds us.  All of this distance is pretty impressive – and immeasurable.

So it is with God’s love.  The Bible says his thoughts towards us are more numerous than the grains of sand by the sea. I would never even attempt to count grains of sand, for I’m sure I would fall asleep counting before I ever finished counting the amount I could hold in my hand.

We cannot comprehend the love of God because it surpasses any kind of love we can experience with another human being.  If we are blessed to have one friend in life who might take a bullet for us, we can kick our heels up with joy.  But even that one friend just might cower in fear if the circumstance ever really arose.

Jesus did not cower in fear when he was faced with death for the sins of the world.  The love he had for his Father, the relationship they had of complete trust in one another, kept him hanging there. 

So great is his love for you!