In my last post, I started talking about the love of God towards us. It’s amazing and infinite. Without the help of the Holy Spirit, we’ll never be able to fathom it. I want to continue with this today.
By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me – a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8 NIV
We’re told something interesting about the love of God in this verse. It says that God directs His love toward us.
That word, direct, means to command. It’s like a general giving orders to those soldiers under him. It literally says that God commands His love to reach us.
I think that there’s something incredible about it. The verse makes it clear that it’s by day that He commands his love.
I think about it this way…I have three daughters. When they were little, I remember seeing them while they were sleeping. The fact is that at night, while a child is sleeping, it’s very easy to look at them with love in your heart.
This verse tells us that He commands His love when we’re awake. It’s during the daytime while we’re doing whatever we happen to be doing.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:35 NIV
These are great questions. What can possibly put a space between you and God’s love? Can pressure, hardship, or persecution? Can hunger, danger, nakedness, or the sword? Paul then answers his own questions.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39 NIV
The simple answer is – nothing! There’s no place or no one that God’s love cannot reach. Why? Because God commands it to be that way. The same command that created light, commands love to reach to you. When God commands it, nothing can stop it.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge…
Ephesians 3:17b-19a NIV
This is a prayer to God. It’s a prayer for power. This power can only come from God. That’s because it takes supernatural power to grasp God’s love.
I cannot understand His love, without His power to do so. I cannot love God without knowing God. (Because God is love) I cannot know God and His love without His power at work in me. He has to reveal His love to me.
This passage tells us why we need power to grasp the His infinite love. It’s because we need to grasp or literally lay hold of this love. With His power we can know this love that’s beyond knowledge.
How can you know something that goes beyond knowledge? How can something infinite fit inside something tiny? Only by the power of God.
We need a revelation of the love of God. The more time with Him – the more we know His love.
Question: Is it your prayer to be able to grasp the infinite power of God’s love?
© 2026 Nick Zaccardi
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