My great grandmother, whom I called “Nana” gave me my very first hymnal when I was just a young aspiring musician. She was a pianist and I used to sit and watch her play and sing the songs of her faith for hours. As I grew and blossomed into a lover of music myself, eventually Nana’s instrument became my own, both figuratively and literally, and in just a short matter of time thereafter, her faith became mine as well. I developed a love for the God my Nana worshiped and the hymns she used to express that love.
As I prepared to write today’s devotion, I reached for the shelf and pulled several hymnals out, looking for one that contained the score I needed. Only one hymnal had the song I was looking for; you guessed it, Nana’s. And on page 60 I read once again the indelible words penned by Frederick Lehman way back in 1917:
The love of God is greater far, than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell.
That is the Love my grandmother sang about, and the Love that I still proclaim as part of her legacy today. The Bible says that God IS love (I John 4:8John 4:8
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Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made, Were ev’ry stalk on earth a quill, and ev’ry man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, tho’ stretched from sky to sky.
O love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure-The saints’ and angels’ song.
My Nana passed away when I was a teenager, but even still, I knew her to be a saint. I know she’s in heaven right now joining the angels in their eternal song of God’s love. I’m singing it here on earth until I join them in heaven, and I hope you’ll be singing it with us forevermore too!
O love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure- The saints’ and angels’ song…
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