How do we measure measureless grace… or comprehend incomprehensible mercy… or probe the depth of fathomless love? We can neither measure nor comprehend nor probe these items of divinity; they are clearly beyond our full grasp. They smack of infinity and we are so obviously finite. We are left stretching our limited minds in order to get just a faint appreciation of what grace and mercy and love – all essential parts of the infinite God – are.
There is an eternal Reality that is all around us and extending out on either side further than the encircling horizon and above our heads far past the vaulted skies – there is a divine Reality that will some day make our limited definitions of the things of God pale into a ridiculous insignificance. We speak haltingly of grace; we stammer uncertainly of mercy and talk in generalities of the love of God while even those among us who are relatively close to God can never in this lifetime have a valid concept of things that cannot be conceptualized by a pea sized brain encased in a head made of flesh and blood (1 Cor. 15.50).
But we do what we can. It is only right and needful that we come up with movies like The Passion of the Christ and draw from devout hearts discourses like A Monumental Event. It is through these devices that we get a glimmer of truth, a truth that makes us know we don’t yet know all the eternal reality of God; we have only a smattering of truth. Paul tells us in 1 Cor. 13.8b-13,
…whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
There is a greater knowledge awaiting us that will impact on our hearts and minds the totally awesome magnitude of the grace, mercy and love of God and the utter horror of the sacrifice He made for us, a sacrifice driven by the grace, mercy and love of God.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God…
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