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January 12

Joseph Mallord Turner, one of the finest and most famous of British artists, lived from 1775 to 1851. Turner was something of a prodigy as a painter, and his father, a barber, is said to have sold some of the lad’s sketches when he was twelve. Turner is best known for the brilliant and lavish colors of his landscapes and seascapes.

One day, so the story goes, a lady approached Turner, objecting that she did not see such brilliant colors occurring in nature. The artist’s simple but perceptive reply was, “Don’t you wish you did, Madam?”

The Apostle Paul expresses similar sentiments in a brief prayer recorded in Ephesians 1:18: “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he [i.e. Jesus] has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.” Paul later adds this similar prayer: “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power . . . to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ” (Ephesians 3: 17b–18). Paul is painting the spiritual landscape for his fellow Christians, and it contains all the colors of the rainbow.

God loves His children with an abundant, abounding love that truly passes understanding.

Simply put, God loves you and God loves me.