HYMN - IMMORTAL LOVE – FOREVER FULL

FEB. 21ST.  
Memory Verse: To know this love that surpasses knowledge filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:19)

TEXT: John 15:9; Ephesians 3:1, 19; 1 John 3:1; Revelation 1:5, 6.

Love is silence – when your words would hurt.
Love is patience – when your neighbour’s curt.
Love is deafness – when a scandal flows
Love is thoughtfulness – when for others’ woes
Love is promptness – when stern duty calls
Love is courage – when misfortune falls.
The bible teaches that the three cardinal virtues of the Christian life are faith, hope, love, with love as the greatest (1 Corinthians 13:13). These virtues in a person’s life are the most convincing evidences of a personal relationship with Christ. True faith must always lead to a life of love for God and others. It also gives purpose for this life and the glorious hope of spending eternity with our King of Love. Our love relationship with others should be characterized as sacrificial, sensitive, and sharing. We should relate to people even as Jesus did. He loved individuals simply for themselves and accepted them at the place of their personal need.
In 1867 John Greenleaf Whittier, a Quaker and recognized as one of America’s finest poets, wrote a 38 stanza poem title “Our Master.” This hymn text with its emphasis upon the constancy of God’s immortal love was taken from that poem it was Whittier who once stated “a good hymn is the best use to which poetry can be directed”. The musical setting my William V. Wallace, a Scottish violinist and composer, was adapted from a longer love song, “Waft, ye Winds,” written by Wallace in 1856.
Immortal love – forever full, forever flowing free, forever shared, forever whole,  a never ebbing sea!
We may not climb the heav’nly steeps to bring the Lord Christ down; in vain we search the lowest deeps, for Him, no depths can drown.
But warm, sweet, tender, even yet a present help is He; and faith has still its life’s throne and press, and we are whole again.
Thru him the first found prayers are said our lips of childhood frame; the last low whispers of our dead are burdened with His name. O Lord and Master of us all, whatev’er our name or sing, we own thy sway, we hear thy call, we test our lives by thine! ACTION

POINT: Reflect on the constancy of our Lord’s immortal love as you meditate on this thoughtful hymn text. “AMAZING GRACE; 366 INSPIRING HYMN STORIES FOR DAILY DEVOTION”