The Deep Deep Love of Jesus

The Deep Deep Love of Jesus

Ephesians 3:18-19 "I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, 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."

Sometimes songs just get to me. They reach down inside of me and pull out my own feelings. They say what I feel and how I feel. One such song is "The Deep, Deep Love Of Jesus", written in 1875 by Samuel Trevor Francis. As a despondent teenager, contemplating suicide while standing on a bridge overlooking the River Thames, he had an epiphany about the depth of God's love. The first stanza goes like this...

"O the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free.
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love.
Leading onward, leading homeward, to Thy glorious rest above."

Not sure all the reasons why this resonates with me so much. Perhaps my love of the ocean, coupled with my constant effort to surrender to His love, is a combination that speaks deeply to my soul. Oh how I desire to go with the flow of the current of His love. To do that I must relinquish control of everything to Him. After all, the only omnipotent one knows best, right? Fullness comes from Him, He measures it all and made it all and understands it all. So I need His love to help me with that. When I do surrender to Him, everything is indeed lovelier. Hope you do that today too.

 In Him,

 Pastor Fred