The Love of Christ

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. Ephesians 3:17b-18 NIV

It amazes me just how much God loves us! I read the above scripture and I think about the Grand Canyon. Yet, even that is small in comparison to God's love.

I have had to deal with a lot of situations in my own life where I have felt unloved and unloving. At the same time I have also been in situations where I felt immersed in love, and felt free to return it. Recently I have been operating more so in the second type. God knew the struggle I was going through about missing a loved one, and it was beginning to get me down. So much so that I felt that feeling of depression knocking on the door to my heart.

Through a mistaken identity on a certain computer program (I will not mention what it was, I'll let you figure it out) Nevertheless, God knew my heart was aching. I tried to make contact with someone that I thought was one person, but turned out to be someone else. I felt foolish and embarrassed, but God knew what He was doing.

One thing led to another and we have become fast friends and I have even had the wonderful opportunity to meet this person (she is from another state). This has turned out to be a most amazing thing. I hear from her daily, sometimes multiple times during the course of the day. I never cease to be encouraged by her. She has such a heart for God! I can see God in everything she says! This has been a very encouraging thing for me. I feel as though God heard my hearts cry, and knew the things I was struggling with, and plopped this very special young woman of God into my life.

I must say that it was the very last thing I expected to happen. Through this relationship that began as an accident, I have felt the love of God in way that has been a missing part of my life for many years.

When Paul wrote the words in the above scripture, I feel sure that something special must have happened to make this a very real thing in his life and he wanted to let us know just how important it is for us. We really have no idea about how much God loves us. I do not think our small minds can absorb it, truly! God cares about everything that concerns us. He wants to show us just how much He cares by doing things that prove His love to us in different ways.

This is how God showed me His love, it is wide, long, deep and high. It is amazing! I am so thankful that He chose this way to show me how much He cares!

Father, even when my heart is aching and feels like it is breaking for the lack of something, I can trust You to show me just how much you do care, and how much you love me. Thank you Lord and I love You too!

Becki Reiser