Jesus Loves Me This I Know: Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

Have you ever considered the depth of the love in the heart of the Savior?  How comprehensive is the love of Jesus!  There is nothing that concerns our welfare that is not important to Him.  Believer rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about your lesser affairs – the breadth of His love is such that we can go to Him for all matters that concern us.  If He did the greater, won’t He do the less?  He cares for us as a good father cares for his children.  One could never fully measure the love of Christ. 

He grew up as a Tender shoot as a Root out of dry ground , no beauty, no majesty that would attract us to Him. There was nothing in His appearance that we would desire Him. Despised and rejected by men, He was a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering.  One from whom we hid our faces, He was despised and we esteemed Him not.  There was no sorrow like His sorrow nor love like His love.

Was it not enough that He was willing to pray and sigh and weep over miserable wretches as ourselves let alone bleed and die for us?  As if being hated, blasphemed, slandered and buffeted were not enough, He was also scourged, wounded nailed and crucified.  And to top it all off, He had to also undergo the wrath of God for me and for you.   What kind of love is this?  Oh the transcendent love of Christ.  What heart can conceive it or tongue express it?  Shall such a love only receive our cold hearts and affections?  Shall His tender care receive from us a cold shoulder?  Remember, we are no longer desolate pilgrims wandering around in a trackless waste, but a beloved child of the King, watched over, prayed over, supplied for, cared for and defended by our Lord.