SUCH LOVE

DAY 97

Today is a day for very pensive reflections and the hymns speak volumes. Two come to mind from this afternoon:

The first is Graham Kendrick’s titled “such love’. The first stanza is as follows:

Such love, pure as the whitest snow
Such love, weeps for the shame I know
Such love, paying the debt I owe.
O Jesus, such love.

The second is the more popular 1707 hymn by Isaac Watts: ‘When I survey the wondrous cross’. The final stanza of this hymn is a deep invitation to intimacy with God:

‘Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were a present far too small.
Love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.’

Beloved, the love of God that caused him to give His only beloved son, Jesus, is not one we can earn because no amount of action can surpass the finished work of Christ. It is not a love we deserved, because Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. It is one that we only need receive. Such love indeed.

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