Have you ever noticed how huge the world is to children? Numbers don’t come in tens and twenties, but in jillions and a googleplex. They are always trying to see how fast they can run, how high they can climb, how many times they can spin around before they fall over sick. And when you ask them how much they love something, they stretch there arms out as wide as they can as if they can stretch out forever.

 

“This much.”

 

Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus: “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power together with all the saints, 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.”

 

Agape, God’s love, stretches out into forever. It is huge.

 

When was the last time that you stopped to think about it. And I don’t mean closing your eyes during a worship service. I mean staring up at the sky and realizing God’s love is wider, longer, higher, and deeper than that blue expanse before you. I mean stopping your world and realize what wondrous love this is.

 

I think that we lose that childlike sense of wonder when we grow up. We think that we have it figured out. John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have life eternally - becomes an answer to a question when it is actually one of the most staggering statements in history.

 

God loved a world in total rebellion so infinitely that He came to earth in the form of a human. God lowered Himself to our level, lived among us, loved the least of these, taught with great wisdom. . .basically lived the greatest life of any man or woman who has walked the earth. But the giving didn’t stop there. Jesus willingly laid down his life on our behalf. Remember this was for a humanity that does all that it can to get away from God. On that cross, they stretched out his arms as wide as they could and it stretched out forever.

 

I did a poor job telling that story, but in and of itself the life, death, and resurrection of Christ is the most colossally huge thing to ever happen. It still transforms people today and is the most important part of our story. But here’s the thing. That is not the only way that God tells us He loves us.

 

There’s more. Much more.

 

Every day, there are jillions of ways that God lets us know we are loved. Every breath. Every sunrise. Every smile. Every laugh. Every note of music that brings you joy. Every morsel of food that passes through your lips. Every person in your life that loves you. Everything good is of God. And it is just another way of telling you that you’re loved.

 

And it happens every day of your whole life. For eternity.

 

Do you realize how the world would change if we just started to grasp how wide and long and high and deep God’s love is? What if people lived their lives with just the smallest understanding that the Creator of the entire Universe loved them that much? God wants to be with all of us. All love feeds off God’s love. The deeper we are in to agape, the greater our love for family, friends, and complete strangers. Good thing agape is infinite.

 

We are children of God. Perhaps it’s time that we act like it. Get lost in the hugeness of the world. Run after God until well after bedtime.

 

Let’s chase infinity.