I've found a Friend, oh, such a Friend

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I've found a Friend, oh, such a Friend!
  He loved me ere I knew Him;
He drew me with the cords of love,
  And thus He bound me to Him.
And round my heart still closely twine
  Those ties which naught can sever,
For I am His, and He is mine,
  Forever and forever.
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I've found a Friend, oh, such a Friend!
  He bled, He died to save me;
And not alone the gift of life,
  But His own self He gave me.
Naught that I have my own I call,
  I hold it for the Giver;
My heart, my strength, my life, my all,
  Are His, and His forever.
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I've found a Friend, oh, such a Friend!
  So kind, and true, and tender,
So wise a Counsellor and Guide,
  So mighty a Defender!
From Him who loves me now so well,
  What power my soul can sever?
Shall life or death, or earth or hell?
  No! I am His forever.
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Un Hermano

Jehovah Drawing the Children of Israel with Cords of a Man, with Bands of Love

Verse 4a says, “I drew them with cords of a man, / With bands of love. ” The phrase “with cords of a man, with bands of love” indicates that God loves us with His divine love, not on the level of His divinity but on the level of His humanity.

God’s love in teaching Ephraim to walk and in taking Ephraim in His arms shows us that God’s love is divine but on a human level. If He loved us on the divine level, we could not touch His love. His divine love reaches us on a human level. He has come down to the human level in order to reach us. This is what it means to say that He drew Israel with the cords of a man, with bands of love.

Life-study of Hosea

Message 8 (LSM)


Fran Smith

Caldwell, ID, United States

He awakened me this morning with this precious hymn!


Ron McNalley

Granbury, Texas, United States

Surprised to find out that this was John D. Rockefeller favorite hymn


Norman Huber

Hailey, Idaho, United States

Dont call anything unclean I have made it clean. .... john 6: 58 , 44 --- no one comes unto the father but throu me ." Live by me. 63 - 65

If I wash not your feet , you have no part of me. " more abundantly. Change from corruptible to incorruptible. ... we are of God when we j... john 5:19-47 . Thus fulfilling Prayer chpter 17.

I have been so long with you and you have not known me phillip. --- I have put my spirit within you. - dont forget to eat.


Wansi Winny

Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroon

Thank you Jesus Christ. The only true love🙏🏾


Susan Stean

Littlehampton, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Thank you Lord Jesus for dying for my sins, so that I can be yours forever.


Jane

Nairobi, Central, Kenya

I love this hymn.


Waleghwa

Nairobi, Kenya

I'm reminded today that I have a true friend in Jesus. He will never leave me nor forsake me. I'm never alone, for he has bound me to himself with the chords of love. Amen


Emmanuel Bunya

Bamenda

This hym really touches my soul, our Lord died for my sins,


Joshua Chang

Walnut, CA, United States

Thank You Lord that you didn’t just bleed for me, nor did you just give life to me, but You gave Your very self to me!!