Here is Love

In the early 1900’s a young man named Evan Roberts began to pray. The Spirit began to take hold of his soul, and God’s power began to rest upon him although he was a young man. Everywhere he went revival followed, and in a couple of years thousands of souls came into the kingdom, and the spiritual landscape of Wales was changed forever. You would do well to google the Welsh Revival and challenge your soul.
During the revival, the song that became sort of an anthem was “Here is Love”. It is sung below by Robin Mark.

Here is Love


How is it that truths like this song have almost disappeared from our church vocabularies? How can we stand before God with all the nonsense that goes on in church and the lifestyle compromises that live openly in believers? Does it not break our hearts when we see how much redemptive love was poured upon us by our Loving God, and yet we bring Him such wood, hay, and stubble?
Perhaps God’s great grace will allow us a revival here in the western church which is so petrified by activity and the cares of this world as another Jesus is worshiped. The gateway to such a revival is first a resurgence of prayer. The second step will be a mighty resurgence of prayer. Prayer must be our life, prayer must be our breath, and the church house lights must begin to burn during the week with seeking believers on their face before God.
During the Welsh Revival many coal miners came into the kingdom. As they went down into the mines they noticed that the ponies that pulled the carts had trouble obeying their commands. Why was that? They came to realize that as Christians they no longer used profanity in their commands and the ponies were confused. The ponies had to be retrained!
How have we decimated the precious faith of Jesus Christ? We have taken the sacred and trodden it under the feet of our hedonistic and secular culture. And how treasonous is it to hear the truth of God's matchless love, and yet live as if it means almost nothing? Where are the mighty transformations from sinners to saints? And where is the divine incandescence that should be emanating from our lives so that sinners might awaken and Christ may be high and lifted up? Read these words and see if Christ deserves more, much more, than what we currently offer Him.

Here is Love

Here is love vast as the ocean,
Lovingkindness as a flood
When the Prince of Life, our ransom,
Shed for us His precious blood.

Here is love. Lord, we remember.
From our hearts we lift Your praise,
Raising high the living anthem
All will sing through endless days.

On the mount of crucifixion
Fountains opened deep and wide.
Through the floodgates of Your mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide.

Here is love like mighty rivers
Poured unceasing from above.
Heaven's peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love.

O what love! Great love!
Dying Lord, what love!

Here is love vast as the ocean,
Lovingkindness as a flood
When the Prince of Life, our ransom,
Shed for us His precious blood.Here is love.

Lord, we remember.
From our hearts we lift Your praise,
Raising high the living anthem
All will sing through endless days