Some gifts are amazing. Perhaps the gift is costly and extravagant. Sometimes it is especially thoughtful and chosen to show a deep love. Some gifts even change a life or life’s direction. But rarely does one gift do all of these and impact the lives of millions. There was one such Gift given. It was extravagant, costly, planned before all time, carefully chosen and expressed deep love. It also changed lives. Millions of lives. “Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!” 2 Cor. 9:15
I’m reminded of this old hymn: The Love of God.
Gaither Vocal Band – The Love of God [Live]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqbqjX2KRyY
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One of my favorite songs. I love the imagery about how we could never write enough of God’s love if that is what every person did for the rest of their lives.
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I agree. I found this interesting history about the song and the author: “Frederick Lehman was the pastor who wrote the well known hymn, “The Love of God.”
Lehman emigrated to America with his family at the age of four. They settled in Iowa, where Lehman lived most of childhood.[8] He studied for the ministry at Northwestern College in Naperville, Illinois.
Legends say that when a certain insane asylum patient passed away these words were found scribbled on his walls –
“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 traveled far and touched many hearts for years. Many attributed the lines to the patient, but a rabbi confirmed that the words could be found in the book “A Book of Jewish Thought” by Rabbi Hertz on page 213. Rabbi Hertz attributed the words to a poem written in 1050 AD by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai for the synagogue Pentecost celebrations.
When Lehman moved to California in 1917 he needed to turn back to manual labor for a living. According to the booklet he wrote in 1948 about the history of the song, he wrote the first two stanzas of the song and the chorus as he meditated during work breaks. His daughter helped with the music.”
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