Endless Love

We live in a finite world yet we have a God of abundance. The way we live is based on finite resources, and the fear of things running out is deep within us, we are biased towards preventing famine. We feel fear when we see empty supermarket shelves, we know that there is always a chance that famine will afflict us and we will not have enough.

We bring this attitude to our faith because our brain is almost hardwired to think like this, as our survival as humans has depended on it for millennia. So when I said last night that ‘one drop of Gods love is enough for the whole world’ I was raising up an image of something impossible.

Our reading this morning included the lines

Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ,
King of endless glory.

Endless Glory, endless love this is remarkable. It really is, we do not come to God and hope he has enough love left today, perhaps the last person who came took the last bit.

Remember this story when the people of Israel in the desert were afflicted by snakes in Numbers 21:7-9

The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

Well there was no limit to how many people could be saved each day. If you were bitten by a snake you did not think ‘oh dear, quick, there might not be any saving power left perhaps the bronze snake has run out of blessing’

No all it takes is a look and the blessing never runs out. The Love of God never runs out, we can never hear him saying, sorry I am all used up today, wait until tomorrow’. His love is truly endless and this is so alien to our existence that we never cease to be amazed. One drop of his love is enough for the whole world. That is why it is free because there is no shortage, it will not run out with war or famine, there is no inflation there is no point keeping it in the bank, we can give it away because we can always get some more.

God’s Love is endless.