No Words

For some things there are just no words. No matter how hard we try, the words we conjure up just don’t seem to do the job. And that is frustrating.

So it is with the love of Christ. How do you accurately explain it? It’s virtually impossible. Know why? Because it transcends human thinking capabilities. Don’t get me wrong, we can know the love of Christ, but maybe not like we would like to.

Paul’s prayer for Christians was that they be “rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fulness of God” (Ephesians 3:17-19, ESV). I don’t think that knowing the love of Christ is a “head thing.” It’s a heart thing because that’s where he’s to dwell. Study will only get us so far. The love of Christ “that surpasses knowledge” has to be experienced.

What is it that stands out to us about Christ’s love? It’s what he did, namely, the offering of himself upon a cross for humanity. But for us to experience the transcendent love of Christ ,we must experience it with him by doing the things he did. It comes by teaching with relevance, serving with compassion, and giving with spiritual substance.

The matchless love of Christ transcends our words though. Words are the product of thought; thought is the product of knowledge; Christ’s love surpasses them all!