God's Love

"The love of Christ which passeth knowledge." Ephesians 3:19

We do not really see the ocean. To do that is beyond our power. Through that vista we glimpse a bit of blue water as though God has painted a picture and framed it with hills and trees. But southward and northward on distance-hidden shores stretch waters we have never seen. Bays lie placid by sunlit rocks, and long surges roll in soothing rhythm on smoothly sloping sands. Inlets ripple under tropic moons, and warming currents bear springtime's promise to frozen arctic reefs. Beyond that curved blue line that limits our sight, there rolls an open plain of waters to realms where we have never been, leaving the strands of palmy islands of which we do not know. And this is but the surface! Beneath are miles of depth, fathomless and mysteries beyond the thoughts of men.

God's measureless love is like the ocean. Through the windows of earthly life we catch a gleam. From the valleys of trouble we glimpse, wave on wave. From the headlands of faith we view a broader tide to the line that blends eternity with time. Our happiest days are islands set in its boundless breadth. Yet, as with the ocean, we have never seen it all! Even Eternity cannot reveal its greatness to the wondering hosts of heaven, nor all the universe exhaust the fountains whence it flows.

"We can only see a little of the ocean,
Just a few miles distant from the rocky shore,
But out there-far beyond our eyes' horizon,
There's more-immeasurably more.

"We can only see a little of God's loving -
A few rich treasures from His mighty store;
But out there-far beyond our eye's horizon,
There's more-immeasurably more."

By Mrs. Charles E. Cowman taken from "Springs in the Valley"