How Deep

You were broken that I might be healed
You were cast off that I might draw near
You were thirsty that I might come drink
Cried our in anguish that I might sing

How deep is your love
How high and how wide is your mercy
How deep is your grace
Ours hearts overflow with praise
To you

You knew darkness that I might know light
Wept great tears that mine might be dry
Stripped of glory that I might be clothed
Crushed by your Father to call me your own

How deep is your love
How high and how wide is your mercy
How deep is your grace
Ours hearts overflow with praise

Jesus came from all the splendor and majesty that he had known....came to a sinful, disgusting, hateful world. Why? Love. Love is not just a feeling or a thought. It's an action, and our Jesus perfectly displayed that action for the entire world. Every single man and woman on the whole face of the globe. There is no one that is untouched by His gracious love. This love takes us from the bonds of our horrible sin and frees us to be slaves to God's righteousness forever. But this slavery is not another suppressed and harsh slave-master relationship, but rather, it's a Father-son/daughter relationship. So full of love for us that we honestly cannot even understand the depth of His love.

I have swam in the ocean, and I know that in the middle of the ocean it is hundreds of feet deep. But eventually, you come to the sandy ocean floor, and you've reached the bottom. The extent of the ocean. Compare this dept to God's love, but take away the bottom. It's a bottomless pit of favor, joy, peace, and patient care.

Our Jesus loved us so very much...bottomlessly...that he came and suffered the ultimate death. So much pain and tears...why? To take our perverted sins on Him and thus save us from them so we don't have to bear them anymore. He died. But we don't serve a dead God...He rose! He came back to life to show us that death and sin have absolutely no power over him. They can't defeat Him in any way, but rather He can defeat them! All this...so we can live. So we can be free. How deep! How vast! How wide and long and unending! A gift He gives FREELY to us. One that can forgive our sins if we are willing to confess these sins as what they are: horrible sins that keep us seperated from God. Confess and simply believe on Jesus. Believe and accept his gift of eternal, unending life. Our hearts overflow with praise!