Christometry - The Depth of the Love of Christ

The love of Christ did not reach down to those who were struggling — it descended to those who were dead.

We have been measuring the love of Christ by the four dimensions Paul names in his prayer for the Ephesian believers — the breadth, and length, and depth, and height (Ephesians 3:18) — each one an expression of what he calls “the measure of the gift of Christ” (Ephesians 4:7). After introducing the concept, we traced the breadth: how wide the love of Christ reaches, from the eternal predestinating will of God through the demolished wall between Jew and Gentile to the individual believer filled with the Spirit. Then we traced the length: from before the foundation of the world, through past ages and the eternal redemption at the cross, through the dispensational waypoints, to world without end.

Now we descend. The depth of the love of Christ is the most personal of the four dimensions — it is the measure of how low He went, and what He found when He arrived. And the depth, like the breadth and the length, begins not with us but with Him.