MONDAY June 24th
Ephesians 3:18-19
‘. . . may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.’
The hymn that I mentioned in our previous devotion continues with:
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made;
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forever more endure—the saints and angels’ song.
Isn’t the love of Jesus something wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, isn’t the love of Jesus something wonderful, wonderful it is to me. I could burst into so many songs concerning his love!
Is his love wonderful to you as you read this devotion? There is no love like the love of Jesus—never to fade or fall, till into the fold of the peace of God he has gathered us all. Jesus’ love, precious love, boundless and pure and free; Oh, turn to that love weary wandering soul: Jesus pleadeth with thee!
Most of you are aware of my friend Ray, it was my joy when I led him to the Lord to read to him a few passages of Scripture, and one portion in particular which I read again with him in the home and am going to be reading at his funeral is from Romans 8:37-39, verses I always think of when I arrive at the text verses we have had today, Gods love is such that we can say as we have come to accept Jesus as our Saviour and Lord:
‘No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.’