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I<\/span> find that if a phrase seems beautiful and poetic, it is usually not considered so because of a well-placed inflection, a mere complex wording or surprising diction, but because it strikes a truth that our hearts know, but our minds are not aware of. After all, if we are made in the image and likeness of God then we have hearts shaped with divine truths, and souls molded with the answers to questions the brain asks.<\/p>\n

Thus it is with the phrase \u201cunimaginable love.\u201d We use this term to describe God\u2019s love for us, but \u2013 until a conversation with a good friend \u2013 I don\u2019t believe I thought more of it than a pretty phrase. What does it actually mean, that God\u2019s love is unimaginable? It means that God\u2019s love really exists.<\/p>\n

For something cannot be both entirely created by the human mind and<\/i> entirely beyond the understanding of the human mind. Man cannot create and build a car, then step back and say that no man could understand such a device. If we feel God\u2019s love, and God\u2019s love feels unimaginable, then we absolutely cannot be making it up, we absolutely cannot be inducing feelings that don\u2019t belong, for the imagination has great power, but it cannot imagine the unimaginable.<\/p>\n

But,\u00a0though I know without a shadow of doubt what it is to be loved incomprehensibly,\u00a0I would even move beyond \u201cfeeling\u201d unimaginable love, for feelings are fickle. The very concept of the unimaginable, the fact that we know that we cannot know, this too means that God\u2019s love exists. For how could a finite being speak of infinity, how could a imaginative mind hold the unimaginable, unless it was given? These phrases \u2013 along everlasting, eternal, almighty \u2013 certainly don\u2019t come from human experience, but have always been a part of humanity\u2019s vocabulary, which seems to leave the conclusion that there is more to humanity than the finite, more than the animal. The very words we speak betray a God, and a love so great that it\u2019s\u2026well, who knows?<\/p>\n

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