I enjoy seeing the ocean and watching the waves roll in and out. It not only causes me to think of the ocean’s vastness and its hidden wonders, but also of the depth of Jesus’ love for us demonstrated on the cross; unfathomable and full of hidden riches.
The hymn by Samuel Trevor Morris expresses it so well:
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free,
rolling as a mighty ocean
in its fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me,
is the current of thy love;
leading onward, leading homeward,
to thy glorious rest above.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Spread his praise from shore to shore;
how he loveth, ever loveth,
changeth never, nevermore;
how he watches o’er his loved ones,
died to call them all his own;
how for them he intercedeth,
watcheth o’er them from the throne.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Love of ev’ry love the best:
’tis an ocean vast of blessing,
’tis a haven sweet of rest.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
‘Tis a heav’n of heav’ns to me;
and it lifts me up to glory,
for it lifts me up to thee.
As we approach the week where we commemorate Jesus’ death on the cross, which fully paid for all our sins, remember He did not stay dead but rose from the grave to give us eternal life forever with Him. Then, take time to meditate on His great love given freely to us!!