14/52 love that knows no end

"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13

A picture is worth a thousand words, but even a thousand words would not be enough to describe the depths of His love.

One of my favorite songs at the moment is Group 1 Crew's "His kind of love." Every line is purposeful, but in light of Easter weekend I think the most meaningful is in the second verse:

Tell me what kind of God would choose to save the bruised, the broken, the sinners, the runaways. 

I first stumbled upon this cross during what you could probably call the most rebellious part of my life. I'd just had another fight with my parents and needed to get away. I was everything in that line and worse. What amazes me most looking back now is the fact that God pursues us when we are in no state to reciprocate and he persists despite our continued rejection. Love these days is so often portrayed as a mutual attraction. There is something within each individual that draws the one towards the other. But here is something entirely different. Something that completely blows the standards of love out of the water. That is, that while we were still utterly unattractive and by all measures unlovable, God loved us and loved us to the point of death, even death on a cross.

"How do you sing about a love so deep, without feeling like you miss something? I could try, but I could not explain his kind of love... How do you ever try to comprehend a love that knows no end?" - group1 crew