Your Love Stretches

Your love stretches me Father.
You say in 1 Cor 14:1 to pursue love. Not to just sit and let life bring it to me when it will but to pursue it. By Your grace, You enable my heart to allow You to teach me how Your arms are stretched out to all You have created, even to those who deny You.
The stretching reminds me of reaching out, gathering in , encompassing all that it can. I am in awe of it.
The various translations have different ways of saying we are to pursue love.
Follow the way of love...make love your aim...Hotly pursue this love...make love your great quest...seek this love earnestly.

No matter what, Your love remains constant.
When everything is washed away, it remains.
It is an amazing thing to this heart of mine.
How far are your arms stretched out, Father?
Do they ever tire of our human failings, our very human ways,
When we have the Spirit of Life within us,
Yet we constantly revert to our natural life?

It seems no human words can totally express the breadth, length, width, height and depth of it.
Yet we are encouraged and assured by Paul in Eph 3:17-18 to be rooted and grounded in Your love so that we may be able to apprehend and grasp the experience of it in our lives.

Yes, Your are more than willing to teach us about the Cross, which is the perfect expression of Your love for us. There are many inspired songs and writings about this love but You use simple words to express it best..."For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son..."(John 3:16).

Love gives. And You gave Your Son for me.