Where do you turn when you’re discouraged, depressed, or disheartened? Where do you turn when you could really use a pick-me-up? We like to run: sex, success, screens, or shopping. But, we don’t ultimately need romance, a new career path, some Netflix, or free two-day shipping. We need an inner renewal that only a clear view of Jesus can provide.

In Ephesians 3:14-21, Paul prays that God, by his Spirit, would give the Ephesians strength to know Christ’s mighty heart for them, so that they might become all that God intends. In verses 14-15, Paul gives the Ephesians three reasons he prays with confidence to the Father on their behalf.  We, too, we can pray confidently for our church because our Father loves us, is near to us, and is the mightiest.

Psalm 107 invites us to experience the steady and sturdy love of God so that we might burst with thankfulness to him. The reach of God’s love has no bounds, and the psalm’s second story takes us behind the bars of a prison. God draws even prisoners into his divine love. In Romans 6, Paul describes the natural human condition as enslaved to, or imprisoned in sin and death. But to the praise of God’s grace, through faith in Christ there is freedom. For those who have been set free by the love of God, we too should join God in extending love to those who are imprisoned both spiritually and physically. Psalm 107 reminds us that those behind bars are loved by the triune God, inspiring us to extend compassion and the gospel to them.

Psalm 107 reveals a God who doesn’t just love people from all over, but a God who pours out His never-giving-up love on all kinds of people. The reach of God’s love has no bounds! God loves all kinds from all over with a sure and steady love. One particular kind that God draws into his divine love are wanderers. The wanderers are making their way through a desert looking for a secure city, food to fill, and water to quench. In the love of God our wandering hearts finally make it home.