Incomprehensible Love

Who can comprehend His incomprehensible love?

Love that looks down from on high in glory and splendor and all things that are good and perfect as we ponder who is the greatest.

Who can comprehend His incomprehensible love?

Love that died, was tortured and killed-for us to live, to glorify, to bless. Love that died to forgive us our own disgusting sins, as we struggle to forgive the other forgiven.

Who can comprehend His incomprehensible love?

Love that does what is best for us. Love that blesses us by giving and taking away as we complain.

Who can comprehend His incomprehensible love?

Love that is just and righteous. Love that, despite that fact, will forgive sinners, save them from what they have rightfully earned.

Who can comprehend His incomprehensible love?

Love that watched the ones He loved betray Him, as he was being killed. Love that always comes back to forgive gently, without the pointing of fingers while we struggle with pride.

Who can comprehend His incomprehensible love?

Yes indeed, who can comprehend the incomprehensible? Not even the wisest who live or have lived in this world could tell you. For who can explain something that goes beyond all human nature? No one will ever be able to answer that.

Yet… in some small way, we get to experience the incomprehensible.

A privilege not all will ever experience.

Indeed, who can comprehend His incomprehensible love?

This poem was not meant to discourage you – on the contrary it was meant to encourage you. One of the first times I began to understand God’s love was one night when I was feeling pretty lousy about something bad I kept doing over and over. But as I was thinking about it, I realized that, even though I really didn’t deserve it, God had kept, was keeping, and would always keep loving and forgiving me. It made me feel guilty at first, but then it came to me that this was a chance! The point wasn’t that I was forgiven when I didn’t deserve it, the point was… What was I going to do about it?

The love of God isn’t something you can put into words. It’s only when you look at the delicate petals on a flower, observe what looks like the entire world from the top of a mountain, view a break in the clouds on a stormy sunset that you get a glimpse of how amazing God is – and how puny you are. Knowing that the power that made the world, saved the world, and actually has the power to love the world today, loves you is remarkable. If you haven’t felt this love before, think about it. God has given you all of the love you will ever get, and it’s right there for you to take. Reach out and be completely astounded by God’s incomprehensible love.