ephesians 3:19 (a love I don't understand)
"His love surpasses all understanding..."
sometimes this does not mean sitting in a warm glow of ethereal awe, with golden light shooting from our fingertips because of JUST HOW LOVED by God we feel in this moment.
His love surpassing all understanding can sometimes mean staring at the shambles of your life, clutching your broken heart in one hand and your ruined plans in the other.
And in that moment you will honestly and rightly wonder,"how is this love?"
Sometimes God's love surpassing all understanding will mean we will not feel love with the senses with which we are accustomed.
God's love surpassing all understanding can mean looking at a situation where you, with your limited view of the horizon ahead, cannot logically perceive this love.
Instead you must simply know that there is an agape love working within it all.
That even THIS is love.
God's love surpasses our emotions and our understanding. It exists outside all realm of comprehension. Sometimes we glimpse it in a very simple way- in how our parents love us, in gestures of charity, acts of kindness that we will never be able to repay.
In my experiences though, the times when we experience the fullness of His love is when that is all we have. When everything else has been stripped away and it is the only thing remaining.
His love surpasses all understanding.
sometimes this does not mean sitting in a warm glow of ethereal awe, with golden light shooting from our fingertips because of JUST HOW LOVED by God we feel in this moment.
His love surpassing all understanding can sometimes mean staring at the shambles of your life, clutching your broken heart in one hand and your ruined plans in the other.
And in that moment you will honestly and rightly wonder,"how is this love?"
Sometimes God's love surpassing all understanding will mean we will not feel love with the senses with which we are accustomed.
God's love surpassing all understanding can mean looking at a situation where you, with your limited view of the horizon ahead, cannot logically perceive this love.
Instead you must simply know that there is an agape love working within it all.
That even THIS is love.
God's love surpasses our emotions and our understanding. It exists outside all realm of comprehension. Sometimes we glimpse it in a very simple way- in how our parents love us, in gestures of charity, acts of kindness that we will never be able to repay.
In my experiences though, the times when we experience the fullness of His love is when that is all we have. When everything else has been stripped away and it is the only thing remaining.
His love surpasses all understanding.
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