The Ocean of God's Love

An ancient man once asked, “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are deeper than the depths below – what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.”[1]

What do you think? Just how deep is God’s love? Would you be willing to say that the depths of God’s love are deeper than the sea?

How deep is the sea?

Here’s a scaling image of one of the deeper parts of the ocean – the Mariana Trench. This might give you somewhat of a sense of the answer to that last question . . .

So the sea is really deep. Only 3,280 feet of the ocean depths can be penetrated with light. After that there’s another 36,000 feet that humans have discovered. Beyond that, it is believed that there are still lower undiscovered points. Now it just might be safe to say that God’s love is unsearchable.

The prophet Isaiah once said that God’s righteousness is like the “waves of the sea.”[3]

In the gospel of Christ, we find that God has poured these “waves of the sea” into us. By some magnificent miracle, all of the depths of the ocean of God’s love have been poured into us through Christ. Romans 5:5 declares: “We can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit.” It’s absolutely uncontainable.

What’s incredible is that the Spirit within us searches the depths of God.[4] The Spirit is our submarine that leads us to discover what “God has freely given us.”[5] Just like the movie Finding Nemo, our Dad has found us and now we swim freely in the ocean of His love.

Now . . . Guess what the Prophet Micah once said about our Heavenly Dad, the Maker of heaven and earth, the limitless One who is filled with uncontainable Love?

You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; You will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19)

Picture God, your Papa, hurling all of your sins, including your entire sinful nature, into the depths of the sea. . .

That’s what He did at the cross . . . That’s what the Ocean of His Love did for you…[6]

This is the good news.

Think about the power of the ocean that took down the great ship Titanic. The ocean took it down with ease. How much greater is the power of His love that hurled your sins into the depths of the sea? The most titanic issues of fear, guilt, and sin are effortlessly overcome by the simple revelation of His deep and unending love. Like that old British passenger liner, sooner or later you are going to hit an iceberg of grace, the Rock of His finished work, and your worrisome thoughts and false identities are going to sink out of sight. You can try and be James Cameron and go fishing and filming for remnants of that old thing, but I assure you, it is long gone and buried. No one is piloting that ship ever again.

God’s love is meteoric,

His loyalty astronomic,

His purposes titanic,

His verdicts oceanic.

Yet in His largeness

Nothing gets lost;

Not a man, not a mouse,

Slips through the cracks.

(Psalm 36:5-6 MSG)

The entire Bible ends with an invitation to come and drink from the Waters of His grace . . . to come and partake of what the Ocean of His Love has done for us (and continues to do for us). Let’s recall and heed that invitation as we wrap this up. After that, I’d encourage you to take a selah moment and watch the last video as you meditate on these things. Take a deep breath and then float in the waters of this truth for a while.

Let anyone who hears this say, “Come.” Let anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who desires drink freely from the water of life without cost. (Revelation 22:17)