O Love that will not let me go....
After watching a video by Sheila Walsh, I had to find out more about a hymn that she quoted...it was so touching...who wrote it...
The following is the hymn, written over a hundred years ago by a man who was invited to preach at Balmoral Castle in England by the queen at the time, Victoria...he was totally blind by the age of twenty, but preached and wrote until his death...faithfulness...in his calling...
Each thought brings one back to his love of Christ through the weariness, pain, flickering torch...knowing that his faith was in a worthy Savior, God...who loved and cared for him...the illusions to not seeing make sense when you know he was blind, but kept the faith through the difficult times, knowing the love he knew...
It reminds me to keep on pressing on through the good and hard times...looking toward my Lord who loves me...with a love that has no bounds...a comfort in abundance...a saving that is freely given to those who believe in the saving Grace of a God ...a love that will not let me go...thank YOU...
“O Love that will not let me go”
George Matheson, pub.1882
copyright status is Public Domain
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:3; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Romans 8:35
Albert L. Peace, 1884
1 O Love that will not let me go,
2 I rest my weary soul in thee;
3 I give thee back the life I owe,
4 That in thine ocean depths its flow
5 May richer, fuller be.
6 O Light that foll’west all my way,
7 I yield my flick’ring torch to thee;
8 My heart restores its borrowed ray,
9 That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
10 May brighter, fairer be.
11 O Joy that seekest me through pain,
12 I cannot close my heart to thee;
13 I trace the rainbow through the rain,
14 And feel the promise is not vain,
15 That morn shall tearless be.”
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness...
I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”
Jeremiah 31:3, 25
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 5:14
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:35
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