Here is Love

I officially think I have a favorite song. I'm not sure I can come up with just one that I love more than any others... but this one is amazing. It captures God's love soooo perfectly. It's a hymn that's not very widely spread called "Here is Love" the words are

Here is LOVE, vast as the ocean, loving kindness as a flood, when the Prince of Life our RANSOM shed for us His precious blood. Who this love will not remember? Who could cease to sing His praise? He can never be forgotten, throughout heaven's eternal days.

On the Mount of Crucifixion, fountains opened deep and wide, through the floodgates of God's MERCY poured a vast and gracious tide. Grace and Love like mighty rivers poured incessant from above, and Heaven's peace and PERFECT JUSTICE kissed a guilty world in LOVE.

and the tune is pretty beautiful too. If you'd like to listen, here's the link to the words and tune. http://nethymnal.org/htm/h/e/herelove.htm Now if that isn't love, I don't know what is.

1 John 4:10 "IN THIS IS LOVE, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation concerning our sins."
Here is love. May the Father fill you with His all-perfect, all-consuming love. HE is love.

You know what's kind of sad though? People always talk about hate being such a strong word. And it is. But when you think about it, according to this verse, so is the word "love." Yet so often we throw it around like it means nothing. But love does not mean nothing if it is Christ-like love. Christ had true love, and the kind of love that He had was self-sacrificing love. May we have that same kind of love. I pray that His love is evident in my life and in yours!