deep organic love

I love the end of the semester. Yes, it's crazy, exhausting and challenging but you get these moments of clarity that blow your mind. Today it was a word in class, the mediation on a hymn and a passage from Romans all coming together.

Dr. Garner said . . .

' for God to stop loving us, he would have to stop loving his Son.'

Let that sink in for a moment. We know it is impossible for God to not love his Son. God is love, his Son is love. So how is it possible that we can be so connected with Christ that it is impossible for God to stop loving us because it would mean that he has stopped loving his Son? Dr. Garner went on to say . . .

' that is how organic the work of the Spirit is in uniting us with Christ.'

This means that the Holy Spirit's work in us is so interconnected to Christ that they can no longer be separated. It is no longer just me. Or just Christ. It is Christ and me so incredibly, inseparably, organically together that if God was to remove his love from me he would be doing that to Christ.

So when we come to Romans 8:38-39 and it says . .

' For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'

Surely, this is what Paul was thinking about when he wrote it. He fully grasped that nothing could ever separate us from the love of God in Christ, because nothing can ever separated God's love from his Son. Christ experienced everything on Paul's list, but God never removed his love, instead His love conquered. It just blows my mind that God's love is so total, so complete, so perfect, so inescapable and so inseparably organic. I struggle to get my head around it but then I remember the song that has been stuck in my head for the last two weeks. And slowly like the dawning light, God's love for me and you grows even larger. I become lost in God's love for me like a fish in the sea, living water over me, under me, in me, taking me onward to perfect rest and assurance.

'O the deep, deep love of Jesus' by Samuel Francis

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 They 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 one, 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 every love the best!
'Tis an ocean full of blessing, 'tis a haven giving rest!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, 'tis a heaven of heavens to me;
And it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!

Rest in his love, abide in him and he in your for nothing can ever ever separate you from the love of God in Christ!