You were specifically designed with love for love. At your very core is the need for love. As humans, we are in constant pursuit of love. And ultimately, every behavioral issue we ever experience is in some way trying to earn love, experience love, experience love or force love. What messes we create when we fear love is uncertain, conditional, or unavailable to us.

This is why as women we seek attention, and often act in ways we’re later ashamed of. It’s why we are so quick to settle for the scraps of love because some type of love is better than the thought of no love. And this is truly why the enemy attacks so hard in making us feel unloved.

Have you ever felt unloved? What did you do in that space of feeling unloved? It wasn’t healthy, was it? It was far short of God’s best for you, wasn’t it. And now you know that was a scheme of the enemy to attack the very thing you are designed in and for … love.

You will never not need love. You will never love yourself enough to fill that hole. There’s no surgery, no hair extensions, no diet, no new shoes, purse or outfit that will ever make you love you enough to fill your core craving for love. And there’s no human who can fill that hole. Oh how they will fall short. Why? Simply because that was never within their design. That man will fall short. Those children will grow up and move on. That best friend will get busy.

BUT GOD.

This is your BUT GOD moment.

But God’s love will perfectly fill the hole within you. Why? Because your creator lovingly designed you to need his love, and only his love will ever do. God’s love is like the key to the lock that opens the door to the fullness of life you most desire.

But if you don’t know the measure of God’s love for you personally, then you will always feel lacking and unfulfilled. Right here, today, it’s time to learn the MEASURE OF GOD’S LOVE.

Do you realize that God’s love isn’t a feeling, it isn’t a thought, it isn’t a magical state or some future destination. God’s love is real and it’s measurable.

This is why Paul writes in Ephesians 3:18, “May you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.”

Literal measurement’s of God’s love. And Paul says you “May you have the power to understand it!”

You see my friends, if you understand the measurement of God’s immense love for you, all that striving, all that twisting, all that forcing can end. Every ounce of loneliness, every desire for something more or something different can be quenched in understanding the true measure of God’s love for you.

How can we understand how wide God’s love is?
How long God’s love is?
How high God’s love is?
How deep God’s love is?

We look at the cross. The cross where Jesus hung and died, thinking of you and I individually and personally, is the measurement of God’s love. May you never ever see the symbol of a cross again without knowing the measure of God’s love for you.

Looking at the cross, let’s look at the 4 measurements.

WIDE – The horizontal cross beam. His love is WIDE enough to include everyone.
Jesus stretched His arms outward toward sinners, doubters, outsiders, the broken, the religious, and the ashamed.

The cross is open-armed love. Jesus extends his invitation of love to every single one of us. No one is too far gone. Absolutely no one is excluded. To the very people killing him, he extended his arms. To the sinners hanging on the cross beside him, he extends his arms. To you and I, he extends his arms. WIDE IS GOD’S LOVE.

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LONG – The long vertical beam . This is not just about physical length, it represents enduring love through all time.

His love is LONG enough to outlast your failure, survive every season of life, remain faithful even when you aren’t, and continue through every generation.

The vertical beam stands like an enduring pillar.

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HIGH – The top reaching upward toward heaven. His love is HIGH enough to lift us.

The cross raises us up from shame to identity, from bondage to freedom, from earthly living to eternal purpose.

God’s love doesn’t merely comfort you in your condition — it lifts you up out of it.

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DEEP – The buried portion beneath the ground. The deepest part of the cross is hidden underground.

Much of God’s greatest work happens beneath the surface. His love is DEEP enough to enter your suffering, descend into grief, reach your hidden shame and rescue you from the pit.

Jesus descended into humanity’s deepest brokenness. There is no depth your pain can reach where His love cannot go deeper still. The deepest part of the cross is the part nobody sees.

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His love is wide, it’s long, it’s high and it’s deep.

The dimensions form a cross… but the cross itself also points in every direction. The cross becomes the measurement of immeasurable love.

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Now, notice this – Paul doesn’t say: “May you understand theology.” He says: “May you have power to understand love.” Because love this large cannot be grasped intellectually alone. It must be experienced.This is how wide His love is.
This is how long His love lasts.
This is how high His love lifts.
This is how deep His love reaches.

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