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Podcast 37.2 Transcript
Welcome to Thursday Thoughts at Resonant 7, where we reflect on the reality of God and resolve to let it resound in our lives, repeatedly. Let’s think about this.
O the deep deep love of Jesus
Spread His praise from shore to shore
O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. Psalm 104:24-25 ESV
Jesus is worthy of praise. We spent the first stanza comparing His love to the ocean and now we declare that His praise should extend in a similar fashion with all participating who have come to know His love. Do you routinely spread the praise of Jesus for His great love for you?
How He loveth ever loveth
Changeth never nevermore
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6 ESV
God’s unchanging character is clearly put on display here. Because He loves us He has not consumed us. Though the Lord is speaking to the children of Jacob, we have been grafted in to that family. He loves us eternally and that will never change. Oh how He loves.
How He watches o’er His loved ones
Died to call them all His own
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 ESV
He loves us so much that He died for us. There is no more obvious way for Him to have watched over us than to secure our eternal destiny. That is precisely what Christ’s sacrifice accomplished. We have become eternally His through the death of Jesus. Hallelujah!
How for them He intercedeth
Watches over them from the throne
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25 ESV
For the second time in this stanza we are reminded that Jesus watches over us. This time it is coupled with His ability to save us for all time since He lives to make intercession for us. And He does so from the throne of God. Take comfort in this fact and rest in Jesus’ deep deep love.
Take a few moments to talk to Jesus about what has come to your mind, or listen to what He is saying to you, then I will read our text once more, with the refrain
O the deep deep love of Jesus
Spread His praise from shore to shore
How He loveth ever loveth
Changeth never nevermore
How He watches o’er His loved ones
Died to call them all His own
How for them He intercedeth
Watches over them from the throne
Take the mindfulness of God’s presence cultivated in these last few minutes into the next ones and beyond. Until next time, Be Resonant.
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