How Deep

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, 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. (Ephesians 3:17-19)

Dear Jesus,

May your Spirit within these children give them power to grasp how deep is the love of your Son. When I think of deep I think of limitless. There is no bottom to the reservoir of your love and the love of your Son. But I also think of depth being how far is the reach of the love of Christ. He reaches down into our deepest caverns of sin and pulls us out, out of the depths He rescues us. There is no depth to which we can fall that He cannot reach us. Jesus, help these children to learn that they are never beyond your reach. There is no pit into which they can fall that you cannot find them and lift them out. If they are drowning in the depths of the sea, you can pull them out. May they always look up when they are falling to see your hand reaching for them, and may their hands grasp your grip of grace.

Amen