The Measure of our Mind

 

In church on Sunday we sang the hymn There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (UMH 121).

The third verse reads:

For the love of God is broader

than the measure of our mind;

and the heart of the Eternal

is most wonderfully kind.

I love the idea that the love of God is broader than the measure of our mind. We cannot understand or even grasp a little bit how much God loves us - it is beyond the measure of our mind. God loves us more than we can understand - all of us.

It occurs to me that if the love of God is bigger than we can understand, then God, as well, is bigger than we can understand. We should remember that in our certainty about God. When we claim we "know" something about God, then we are not speaking out of humility. To think we understand God, or can speak for God, is arrogance.

God is more than the measure of our mind can grasp.