Loved with everlasting love

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Loved with everlasting love,
Led by grace that love to know;
Spirit, breathing from above,
Thou hast taught me it is so.
Oh, this full and perfect peace!
Oh, this transport all divine!
In a love which cannot cease,
I am His, and He is mine.
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Heaven above is softer blue,
Earth around is sweeter green;
Something lives in every hue
Christless eyes have never seen:
Birds with gladder songs o'erflow,
Flow'rs with deeper beauties shine,
Since I know, as now I know,
I am His, and He is mine.
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Things that once were wild alarms
Cannot now disturb my rest;
Closed in everlasting arms,
Pillowed on the loving breast.
Oh, to lie forever here,
Doubt and care and self resign,
While He whispers in my ear,
I am His, and He is mine.
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His forever, only His:
Who the Lord and me shall part?
Ah, with what a rest of bliss
Christ can fill the loving heart.
Heaven and earth may fade and flee,
Firstborn light in gloom decline;
But, while God and I shall be,
I am His, and He is mine.
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Brian Esson

Cambridge, United Kingdom

While reading the words of the hymn, the Spirit took me way back to when I was born again. I recall thinking I was going insane, for the sky indeed looked bluer than ever before and colours were more vibrant. Sadly I walked away for a number of years, I simply couldn't handle it. Mercifully the Lord brought me back.


Ana Lara

Storrs, Connecticut, United States

George Wade Robinson was born in 1838, Cork, Ireland, and died January 18, 1877, Southampton, England. Robinson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and New York College, St. John’s Wood, London. He entered the Congregational ministry and was co-pastor at York Street Chapel, Dublin with Dr. Urwick. He then became pastor at St. John’s Wood, Dudley, and at Union St. , Brighton. Some of this works include:

•Songs in God’s World

•Loveland and Other Poems (London, 1873)

Hymns include:

I am His and He is Mine

Strangers and Pilgrims Here Below

Weary with My Load of Sin.

One of his poems, The Disciple (by G. W. Robinson), Loveland and Other Poems reads this way:

O it is sweet here at Thy feet,

Sitting like children Thy wisdom to learn,

Watching that face perfect in grace,

Feeling our hearts in an ecstasy burn.

Earth with her eyes lofty and wise

Passes us by with a scorn in her looks;

We are but fools, hers are the schools,

Hers is the wisdom of sages and books.

O it is sweet here at Thy feet,

Drinking that wisdom which comes from above,

Seeing all night flee from Thy light,

Phantom philosophies vanish at Love.

Lo, it is dawn! darkness is gone!

How the land stretches in brightness away!

Still do men bare tapers with care,

Day is around, and they see not the day,

O it is sweet here they feet,

O it is sweet, and is pitiful, too!

Were they but wise! had they but eyes

Only to see that Creation is new!

Now we are filled, now we are stilled,

Past is the fainting and hushed is the strife,

Truth has her sphere, Christ, in Thy tear,

Love is the ocean, a river is Life.

Oh, it is sweet here at Thy Feet—

Here at Thy feet, for Thy wisdom is Thou;

Master divine, are we not Thine?

Wilt Thou not ever be with us now?


Sisters Y and A

Washington, United States

Good to enjoy with our sister! One body! One spirit!

"God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." (1 Corinthians 1:9) Recovery Version


Robert Giblak

Fort St John, British Columbia, Canada

"In a love that cannot cease"

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Psalm 103:11 KJV

I am just realizing the lengths at which he loves me with an everlasting love.


Josh

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

“I am my beloved’s and his desire is toward me” ☺️


Jeremiah

California, United States

I am His, and He is mine!!!


Cody Enderli

Boston, MA, United States

I am His! And He is mine!


Kojo

Ghana

I am His and He is mine


Marieth

Luanda, Angola

Thank You Lord that I’m yours and You are mine!


Ross Heinricy

Austin, TX, United States

As I was praying in the Spirit this song began to echo forth. I enjoyed singing it to the Father in this time of togetherness in prayer and communing. I have loved the thought from Song of Solomon 6:3, I am my beloved and my beloved is mine... amen and amen

It is of the Lord's sovereignty that the Song of Songs is included in the Scriptures. However, some so-called Christians disagree with the inclusion of Song of Songs in the Bible, viewing it as a secular book, not as a sacred one. But in fact Song of Songs is the most sacred of books. In this book the seeker says, "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine" (6:3). If we did not have Song of Songs, we probably could not have such an expression regarding our relationship with the Lord. The hymn "Loved with everlasting love" has a line in the chorus which says, "I am His, and He is mine." This is a reference to Song of Songs. To say that "I am my beloved's" does not mean that He is the Master possessing us as His servants. It means that we are His love. This relationship is not that between master and slave, but the affectionate relationship between husband and wife. Song of Songs is the most romantic book ever written. Yet this book is concerned with the loving relationship between God and His chosen people. It presents a portrait of the married life of Christ and those who love Him.

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