{"id":24445,"date":"2015-02-17T00:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=24445"},"modified":"2015-02-16T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T23:28:29","slug":"love-divine-loves-excelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/17\/love-divine-loves-excelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Divine, All Loves Excelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Love divine, all loves excelling,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Joy of heaven, to earth come down;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Fix in us Thy humble dwelling;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">All Thy faithful mercies crown!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Jesus, Thou art all compassion,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Pure, unbounded love Thou art;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Visit us with Thy salvation;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Enter every trembling heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Breathe, O breathe Thy loving Spirit<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Into every troubled breast!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let us all in Thee inherit;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Let us find that second rest.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Take away our bent to sinning;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Alpha and Omega be;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">End of faith, as its beginning,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Set our hearts at liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Come, Almighty to deliver,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Let us all Thy life receive;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Suddenly return and never,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Nevermore Thy temples leave.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Thee we would be always blessing,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Serve Thee as Thy hosts above,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Pray and praise Thee without ceasing,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Glory in thy perfect love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Finish, then, Thy new creation;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Pure and spotless let us be.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let us see Thy great salvation<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Perfectly restored in Thee;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Changed from glory into glory,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;Til in heaven we take our place,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;Til we cast our crowns before Thee,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lost in wonder, love, and praise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_hmfqe_8SEI?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Written by Charles Wesley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.<br \/>\n1 John 4:16<\/p>\n<p>Since we just finished celebrating St. Valentine&#8217;s Day, we should not stop celebrating the Author of love, God our Father. \u00a0He wants to love us in a way that no human ever could. I was listening to a podcast earlier in the week, in which the person made a comment that caught my attention. He said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;God wants us to love each other as He loved His Son.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How many of us do that? Now, how many of us put our kids before our spouses? We should not do that! \u00a0We are to love our husbands the way we love our son or daughter. \u00a0Our children are important, but not more than our spouse.<\/p>\n<p>Or even God&#8230;. \u00a0God should always hold first place in our lives, our thoughts, and our actions. Then comes our spouse&#8230;and then our children. We may not have seen it modeled for us, but now we know. \u00a0With all that in order, our families would be okay. God will help us, all we have to do is ask for the help from the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear Father, as Charles Wesley wrote in his song, &#8220;Let us see Your\u00a0great salvation\u00a0perfectly restored in You;\u00a0changed from glory into glory, &#8217;til in Heaven we take our place, &#8217;til we cast our crowns before You,\u00a0lost in wonder, love, and praise.&#8221; We will one day stand before You. Let us never forget to love and to forgive as You have shown us. In Jesus&#8217; name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven, 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. Breathe, O breathe Thy loving Spirit Into every troubled breast! 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