Sunday 23 February 2014

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Sunday
February 23, 2014

Limitless Love

Read: Psalm 36

Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. —Psalm 36:5

Recently, a friend sent me the history of a hymn that I often heard in church when I was a boy:

'Could we with ink the ocean fill, '

'And were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, '

'And every man a scribe by trade; '

'To write the love of God above '

'Would drain the ocean dry; '

'Nor could the scroll contain the whole Though stretched from sky to sky. '

These words are part of an ancient Jewish poem and were once found on the wall of a patient's room in an insane asylum.

Also, Frederick M. Lehman was so moved by the poem that he desired to expand on it. In 1917, while seated on a lemon box during his lunch break from his job as a laborer, he added the words of the first two stanzas and the chorus, completing the song "The Love of God."

The psalmist describes the comforting assurance of God's love in Psalm 36: "Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens" (v.5 esv). Regardless of the circumstances of life—whether in a moment of sanity in a mind otherwise muddled with confusion or during a dark time of trial—God's love is a beacon of hope, our ever-present, inexhaustible source of strength and confidence. —Joe Stowell

Oh love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure,
The saints' and angels' song. —Lehman

You are loved with everlasting love.

The Bible In One Year: Numbers 7-8 & Mark 4:21-41

Goodmorning! Come let's us go into the house of the Lord

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