With the world’s population growing and our awareness that resources are finite, we think about how much we consume; at least we should think about it if we don’t. Today I asked my students how much actual space each one occupies. One of the students volunteered that that would be a very difficult math problem considering all the roundness of our head, limbs and body. However, there is an easier way than trying to measure all those parts. The baptistery in the college church is a rectangle with a Plexiglas front. If we marked the water level without someone in it and then put a new mark when someone got in, it becomes a very easy problem of height times width times length. I think they want to do it. At least they said so.
So, how much space do we occupy in God’s mind? He’s a busy guy. He doesn’t just have the whole world in His hands, how about the whole universe, of which, no matter how large our telescopes get, we can’t see the end. Love, real love, His love, has no bounds. Just listen to Paul in Ephesians 3, “. . . that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, . . .”
Now that is totally awesome. His love for us passes knowledge. How much space does that much love require? How big are you in His heart? How much space do you require in His love? I don’t think we will ever know. We just wouldn’t get it. It’s that big.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 1, 2011
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