HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE?

To love someone is wonderful. For them to love you back is amazing. To love someone deeply is to love selflessly. You know you are in love when you can’t wait to see them. When you can’t seem to get enough of them. The thought of seeing them excites you. You remember their favorite things. You remember every detail about their life. You know when someone loves you because they will respect you. They are patient with you and not rude to you. They are protective of you. They are sensitive about your feelings. They wouldn’t hurt or abuse you in any way, never intentionally.

To some, love comes easy and to others it doesn’t. Some people don’t know how to love, maybe because they really never received love nor experienced it. How can you give something that you never received? Case in point, there was a time in my marriage, where I wanted to leave my husband. He was complicated, at the time. We had probably been married for about three years, and I felt as though I was swimming all upstream and I was exhausted of trying to make something work, that seemed hopeless. I had a talk with my mother and told her how I felt. Her reply was, “Baby, don’t give up on him, because he hasn’t figured it out yet. He loves you, he just doesn’t know how to show you. Give him some time to figure it out” It took over ten years for him to figure it out. Then one day he came to me to ask me, to please forgive him. He told me that his mother died when he was three years old. He never had a maternal love and he didn’t understand how to really love until he met me, but he had been praying to God to teach him. He realized how much I loved him and how I loved him unconditionally. He thanked me for enduring the difficult years, by tolerating him. He told me from this day forward, he would make sure that I knew how much he loved me, because he planned to spend every waking moment of his life, to prove his love to me. Look at God! He was true to his word. He spent the rest of his life, proving to me and showing me that I was the love of his life. His love for me was deep and it showed. I was already there, I was just waiting on him to catch up.

I love my husband and he loved me, but no one can love us as deeply as Jesus. “…Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend will all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge…” Ephesians 3:18b-19b. Now that is a “deep” kind of love. This love is complete and is the total and the sum of all love. It reaches every corner of our experience. It is long (length). It continues through the length of our lives. It is deep (depth). It reaches to the depth of discouragement and despair. It is wide (breadth). His loves reaches the four corners of earth and heaven, he will always be there for us. It is high (height). The height of his loves is eternal. It stretches from earth to heaven. His love places us where He is, and where we shall ever be, eternity.

God’s love for us is immeasurable and inexhaustible. So, wherever, or if ever, you feel unloved, God through Jesus loves you. He is absolutely elated over you and he celebrates you as he engulfs you with his deftness of love.

There is nothing so low that He can’t lift you up to the height of His love. No sorrow could ever be so deep, that He could not soothe your heart.

Now, that’s loving someone deeply! How deep is your love for Him?