The depth of God’s love

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

Psalm 139:8-9 (NIV)

            In her book, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage, Madeleine L’Engle states, “I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”

            The wonder of God’s love is not merely that He loves us unconditionally but that His love is also all-pervading. There is no place where God is not present. Though He places boundaries and limits on all of creation He, Himself, is not limited by physical or temporal constraints. He is with us in our daily struggles; in the midst of our child’s meltdown, in the darkness of night as we cradle a sick child, at the graveside as we say our final farewells to a loved one, in the surgical room, by our bedside on those nights we cry ourselves to sleep.

The depth of His love knows no bounds. It reaches all the way down to our broken world in the form of a baby. It stretches into the darkness and silence of the tomb. It mounts up into heaven where He is preparing a place for us. Whether I sink to the lowest depths or mount up to the highest peak, God is and always will be with me. What tremendous comfort this brings me!

Thought: “The depth of God’s love knows no bounds.” – Renée Vajko Srch