We are loved so much by God.

This flows on from something that was mentioned in passing a couple of days ago. We are being prayed over. Not to be pure, for we are not. Not to think correctly, for we continually have errors.

But so that we will be strengthened in our faith. That we will comprehend how great God is, and how small we are. That we will understand the cost of our salvation, and how much we are loved by God.

Ephesians 3:14-21

¹⁴For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, ¹⁵from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. ¹⁶I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, ¹⁷and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. ¹⁸I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, ¹⁹and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, ²¹to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

One of the reasons that we think so small about God is that we think too greatly about ourselves. We do not comprehend the heavens, and see infinity, and become humbled. Instead we value our self esteem: we want to be Gods. We no longer want to be human, limited by two sexes and death: but transhuman, eternal, and polymorphously perverse in our gratification of all our wants. This is the error of the Garden: it was the error of Lucifer before that. We are not God, and we are not worthy of worship.

But this error creeps in, over and over, because we do not want to humble ourselves. It is only when we see how broken and small we are that we can comprehend how great God is. How loving he is, and how he can indeed do things beyond what we can understand, or do in our own strength.

We are loved so much by God, because God is unlimited. We are not: we love poorly, and in flickers. We need to turn from those comforting candles that generate little heat and light and we used without faith and turn to God, who is light.

For in that light he commands us to walk.