Being a mom has really taught me the depths of love. Like most mom’s, I want the best for my children. I do everything I can to give them the best life possible, and do right by them. I know that they are a gift from God. Though like the rest of us, they’re human. They’re not perfect and at times may test our patience. Yet, even when they do, we still want the best for them. Our love unconditional. The longer I am a mom the more I can grasp God’s love. Not just because he watches over my children, my family and myself. Also, because I get it. Even when we, as God’s children, don’t do as we should, God still wants the best for us. Yes, He disciplines with love. Just as we do our children. Though that same love, is unconditional and unchanged. It loves us in our messes and our mistakes, our sin. Just like we love our children in theirs. Though I know, God loves us even more than we love our children. It’s pretty remarkable to think about. But I get it. We are His children. The depths of that kind of love immeasurable. I get why He continues to fight for us, nurture us even in our moments of weakness and pursue us with His love. How wonderful and deep is our love for our children. How remarkable is God’s love for us all. As a mother, I am grasping deeper the love of God. I look at my children and I see these two, young, incredible humans with such wonderful potential as God’s children. I love them in their good, and their not so good moments. I get it God; you too look at us and see our potential as Your children. The longer I am a mom, the more I understand the depths of the love of God, our Father.

Erin Fitts-Brower

Ephesians 3:16-19 NIV

 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.