The Depths 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.” ⁴

The wonder of God’s love is not merely that He loves us unconditionally but that His love is all-pervading. Though He places boundaries and limits on all of creation He Himself is not subject to physical or temporal constraints. He is with us in our daily struggles, in the thick of our grief, in the darkness of night as we cradle a sick child, at the graveside as we say our final farewells, in the surgical room, by our bedside on those nights we cry ourselves to sleep.

The depth of His love knows no bounds. It reached all the way down to our broken world in the form of a child. It stretched into the darkness and silence of the tomb. It mounts up into heaven where God is preparing a place for us.

There is no place, no circumstance, no struggle that reaches beyond God’s love. Whether I sink to the lowest depths or mount up to the highest peak, God is there. “The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God’s eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity, and held safe in an everlasting embrace” – Henri Nouwen.

Thought: “There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.” Corrie Ten Boom

Excerpt from The Light Has Come: Daily Readings for the Christmas Season

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