Dane Ortlund in his book: Gentle & Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners & Sufferers, wrote the following:
“What was the purpose of this heavenly rescue mission? “God shows his love for us …” (Romans 5:8). The Greek word for “shows” here means to commend demonstrably, to hold forth, to bring into clear view, to put beyond questioning. In Christ’s death, God is confronting our dark thoughts of him and our chronic insistence that divine love must have an endpoint, a limit, a point at which it finally runs dry. Christ died to confound our intuitive assumptions that divine love has an expiration date. He died to prove that God’s love is, as Jonathan Edward’s put it, “an ocean without shores or bottom.” God’s love is as boundless as God himself.” (192)
It is that last statement that struck me and on which I encourage you to reflect: “God’s love is as boundless as God himself.”
What does that truth stir up in your heart? How does it challenge you to respond?
Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section of this blog post, and bless other members of the World Team community with the insights and thoughts God lays on your heart.
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Thoughts Along The Journey 
There are friends and family for whom we’ve been praying for 2+ decades. My urgency and fervency to pray for them diminishes with time but to think that God’s love is boundless rekindles my prayer life. I want to call out to His unlimited supply of love to inundate their lives so they can’t ignore nor be indifferent to His presence. It also compels me to ask “How am I His hands and feet (incarnation) to them in demonstrating that love?”
Great insight! It is certainly true that reflecting on God’s boundless love stirs up a desire in our hearts to share it with others. Here’s hoping others join this reflection and conversation on God’s love!