The Unsearchable Love of Jesus by Charles Spurgeon

Ephesians chapter 3 verses 18 and 19

May you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully.

The love of Jesus is not merely great, it is unsearchable. It defies measurement and surpasses comprehension. The Apostle Paul prayed that believers might understand this unknowable love, not by reason alone, but by the Spirit's illumination and heart experience.

The love of Christ is eternal in its origin, infinite in its depth, and effectual in its power. It is a love that stooped to the manger and climbed willingly to the cross. He loved us when we were unlovely, when we were still sinners, enemies, rebels, and dead in transgressions. Such wondrous love can neither earned nor merited. It is sovereign and free.

Christ's love never began and it shall never end. He set his electing love upon his people from eternity past and will never remove it in eternity future. No created mind can fully comprehend it. As the sea cannot be measured by the hand, so neither can Christ's love be contained by intellect. It is wide enough to embrace all the elect of God, long enough to stretch from eternity past to eternity future, deep enough to rescue the vilest sinner, and high enough to raise us to glory.

When affliction comes, let us gaze again at Calvary. There the measure of His love is revealed, not in empty sentiment, but in His substitutionary sacrifice. There Christ bore our sin. There He endured the wrath that was ours. There His love was proven beyond all doubt.

Drink deeply, dear believer, from this well that never runs dry. Though you can never reach its bottom, you are invited to wade in its depths.

O Lord Jesus, what tongue can speak of your wondrous love for sinful me? May your unsearchable love to me constrain me to live no longer for myself, but for you, who died for me and underwent my eternal punishment. Amen.