From "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" by Charles Wesley
Love divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of heav'n, to earth come down!
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation
enter every trembling heart.
"Pure unbounded love." Those words bring about a feeling of amazement in me! After being amazed, I think to myself "I want some of that!" Pure unbounded love. May you be touched and held by Pure Unbounded Love.. "Jesus" for short!
In Mark chapter 7, Jesus tells us how much he knows about us, that we cannot keep sin on the outside. It can't be kept at arms' length. Rather, it grows from the heart outward.
Acknowledging this condition is the fist step in God's work of creating space in our hearts for faith to dwell. "Visit us with your salvation, enter every trembling heart!" When Pure Unbounded Love enters the chambers of our heart, the Unbounded is contained by the Bounded, but when we live our lives of faith, the Unbounded spills out!
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