I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit, and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.Ephesians 3:16‭-‬19 HCSB

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5. I pray that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height, and depth of God’s love.

What is the length of God's love? 

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Psalms 103:12 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/psa.103.12.HCSB

As far as the east is from the west. The farther we travel west the more west we become even if we circle the earth five times we are still going west. If we were to map the extent of God's love around the world it would look like a big hug wrapping around the world countless times. 

What is the width of God's love? 

The city is laid out in a square; its length and width are the same. He measured the city with the rod at 12,000 stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal.
Revelation 21:16 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/rev.21.16.HCSB

12,000 stadia equals about 1,400 miles. God's love is providing a new Jerusalem that is 1,400 miles wide, long, and high. He is going above and beyond in His love for us. God's love provides us room by making room for everyone who will call on the name of the Lord.

“Your heart must not be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you. If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also. You know the way to where I am going.”
John 14:1‭-‬4 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/jhn.14.1-4.HCSB

What is the height of God's love?

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His faithful love toward those who fear Him.
Psalms 103:11 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/psa.103.11.HCSB

The height of God's love does not stop when the oxygen runs out in our atmosphere. It does not run out when we reach the limit of earth's gravity. it does not stop when we reach a height about the earth that we can see the whole solar system, galaxy, or universe. the height of God's love does not stop. 

What is the depth of God's love?

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Micah 7:19 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/mic.7.19.HCSB

How deeply does God's love go? He loves us so much that he casts our sin into the deepest parts of the see to be remembered no more. He has washed us clean and rinsed it away from us. 

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call to Him while He is near. Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will freely forgive. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:6‭-‬9 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/isa.55.6-9.HCSB

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.
John 3:16‭-‬18 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/jhn.3.16-18.HCSB

God's love is there for us to remove our sins and provide room for us. No one of us deserves it, but He does not love one person above another. All He asks that we believe in Jesus for He was the only one who could bring reconciliation back to God.

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