A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord,
A wonderful Savior to me;
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock,
Where rivers of pleasure I see

Refrain:
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock,
That shadows a dry, thirsty land;
He hideth my life in the depths of His love,
And covers me there with His hand,
                                                 And covers me there with His hand.                                                                                                  

A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord,
He taketh my burden away,
He holdeth me up and I shall not be moved,
He giveth me strength as my day

 

Beloved hymn writer, Fanny Crosby, wrote these lyrics in 1890, almost 130 years ago and yet, these were the words on my mind tonight after a challenging day in the midst of a difficult life season.

Sometimes life has a way of encouraging the believer to forget the love the Father has for us.  In those seasons, when it would be very easy to give way to despair, can there be any greater comfort than to be reminded that God has hidden our very soul and life in the depths of His love?

I may feel unwanted and unloved in my earthly life but I can rest securely in His love … even if I don’t understand His ways.

In Ephesians 3:14-19, the Apostle Paul writes, “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,  that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.”

This kind of love is beyond the capacity of my understanding and yet, it is a truth to which I must cling.

In Romans 8:38-39, Paul also writes this concerning the love of God towards us …

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

What a comfort to know that nothing can ever separate us from the love of God.