Unfathomable Love

“The world will not believe in Christ because of our sound theology, our correct creed, our well defined dogma, our rigorous religiosity. The world will believe when it sees Christlikeness manifested in our life. The world will know that God has sent Christ not simply because we pronounce it to be so but when they see Christlikeness lived out in their midst in our lives in the world.

“Such Christlikeness, however, is the consequence of a loving union with God. This is why Jesus finishes his prayer for us with the words ‘that the world may know that you . . . have loved them even as you have loved me’ (Jn 17:23 NRSV). The source of a loving union with God lies in God’s unfathomable love for us. Think of it – Jesus says that God loves you in exactly the same way that God loves him! To respond to such love with a love of your total being draws you into that loving union with God for which Jesus prays.”

– M. Robert Mulholland Jr., The Deeper Journey, p. 16.