Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All
Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All
Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All,
Hear me, blest Savior, when I call;
Hear me, and from Thy dwelling-place
Pour down the riches of Thy grace:
Jesus, my Lord, I Thee adore;
Oh, make me love Thee more and more.
Jesus, too late I Thee have sought;
How can I love Thee as I ought?
And how extol Thy matchless fame,
The glorious beauty of Thy name?
Jesus, what did Thou find in me
That Thou has dealt so lovingly?
How great the joy that Thou has brought,
So far exceeding hope or thought!
Jesus, of Thee shall be my song;
To Thee my heart and soul belong;
All that I have or am is Thine,
And Thou, blest Savior, Thou art mine:
HENRY COLLINS wrote this moving prayer-hymn the year he graduated from Oxford and began his ministry as an Anglican clergyman. One writer said that it was “almost too intimate to sing in a great congregation.” But the depth of the hymn is worth exploring. The second and third stanzas ask unanswerable questions: “How can I love Thee as I ought?” and “What did Thou find in me that Thou has dealt so lovingly?”
In the apostle John’s first epistle, we are reminded that God’s love precedes ours. “We love each other because he loved us first” (1 John 4:19). But when we start asking why God loves us, there are no answers except in the character of God Himself. In Ephesians 3:19, Paul reminds us that God’s love “is too great to understand fully.”
Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever.
Psalm 73:25-26
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