Oh the deep, deep love...

Mike has been rehearsing with our choir at church for the upcoming Christmas program for some weeks now.  Rather than purchase an already put together musical or contada, he chose to put his own together.  Another gentleman from our church has written the drama to accompany the musical pieces

I usually sing in the choir, but for this year I have sat out due to needing to be available for JennaBeth.  So, I have had the awesome opportunity of sitting back and observing choir practice each Sunday afternoon.  I can't tell you the blessing this has been!  Not just because he's my husband (although I do think he's pretty smart when it comes to these kinds of things!), I believe this is going to be one of the best if not the best Christmas programs I have witnessed in some time!


He's not using all the traditional Christmas songs or hymns you might expect to hear in a program like this.  Often the baby Jesus is focused on at Christmas and we forget to think enough about why He came.  Mike and Steve, I think, have done an awesome job of presenting a very clear picture of why Jesus came in "Grace Became Amazing:  From a Blue Christmas to a True Christmas".

One of the songs in the program is "Oh the Deep, Deep Love".  Here are the lyrics:

 

 Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus

Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free

Rolling as a mighty ocean

In its fullness over me

Underneath me, all around me

Is the current of Your love

Leading onward, leading homeward

To Your glorious rest above

       

Oh the deep, deep love

All I need and trust

Is the deep, deep love of Jesus

 Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus

Spread His praise from shore to shore

How He came to pay our ransom

Through the saving cross He bore

How He watches o’er His loved ones

Those He died to make His own

How for them He’s interceding

Pleading now before the throne

 Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus

Far surpassing all the rest

It’s an ocean full of blessing

In the midst of every test

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus

Mighty Savior, precious Friend

You will bring us home to glory

Where Your love will never end

Original Words by Samuel Trevor Francis (1834-1925). Music, chorus, and alternate words by Bob Kauflin. © 2008 

I hope you soaked in those lyrics.

Every time the choir practices this song, I cry like a baby!  I had to get up this past Sunday afternoon and wipe the tears that were streaming down my face!  I know they all think I've lost it!  But that's the thing, I haven't lost it!  I've found it!!  I have found the deep, deep love of Jesus and sometimes it absolutely overwhelms me.

I have learned, and am learning that there is nothing sweeter, nothing more satisfying or secure than trusting in Jesus.  In His abundant grace, Jesus has overwhelmed me with His love in recent days.  I am learning all over again what it means to trust in Him alone and rest in His deep, deep love regarding some "stuff".  

My prayer is that if you've come across this blog post today and you need to  know or be reminded of the Lord's deep, deep love for you that you will.  Ask Him to overwhelm you with His love today!

"For this reason I kneel before the Father,

from whom His whole family in heaven

and on earth derives its name.

I pray that out of His glorious riches

He may strengthen you with power

through His Spirit in your inner being,

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts

through faith.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established

in love,

may have power, together with all the saints,

to grasp how wide

and long

and high

and deep

is the love of Christ, 

and to know this love that surpasses knowledge -

that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness

of God."

Ephesians 3:14-19

Counting it all Joy,

Jennifer