Just as we cannot understand why God allows bad things to happen to good people, we cannot fully understand the love of God for us. Can anyone comprehend the kind of love that would cause a father to give his only son as a sacrifice for the whole world? For people who despise the name of the one who died for them? For people like me, who sometimes take that sacrifice for granted?
I love this prayer that the Apostle, Paul prayed for the Church at Ephesus:
“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:17-19)
Why God chooses to love us--in spite of our selfish, self-centered ways--is a mystery as deep and unfathomable as why He allows suffering in this world. His ways are so much higher than our ways. Can we accept His love without accepting the fact that He is sovereign and sometimes that involves pain that we cannot understand?
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