O the wonder of wonders, that God should love me!
Love a sinner so guilty, so vile and unclean.
To love the unlovely, O how can it be done?
'Tis only in Jesus, through His blessed Son!
Long before I ever knew Him, my Lord first knew me;
Before I ever sought Him, my Lord first sought me!
When I was in darkness, His sworn enemy,
He purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree!
His love is a mountain that I cannot scale! As wide as an ocean that I cannot sail!
I'll never lay hold of, my mind fully see,
This love that in mercy first laid hold of me! Now that I first did choose Him, for that could not be!
Still this heart would refuse Him, had He left it to me.
I'd still fight that battle that no man can win,
I'd still bar the heart's door that letteth Him in!
His love is a mountain that I cannot scale!
As wide as an ocean that I cannot sail!
I'll never lay hold of, my mind fully see,
This love that in mercy first laid hold of me!
[Mark Webb]
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John 13:1 ... Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
John 15:9 ... As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
Galatians 2:20 ... I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 John 3:1 ... Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. ❤
