Loved with everlasting love

I have never heard this hymn before but it's beautiful. The words are so beautiful, and rich with truth. I am His and He is mine and nothing on earth can take me away from Him! I can rest in Him despite the failures and disappointments and heartbreak of life. I really liked Isaiah's comments, they expressed how I felt as well.

Whoever is playing the piano for these hymns is very gifted, that would not be an easy one to play because of the chromatics yet it's done very well.

Thank you to the makers of this site, for collecting and sharing all this beautiful music with us!

I first came across the second verse while reading "Shadow of the Almighty" by Elizabeth Elliot and didn't know it was a hymn. However, it perfectly described the instant I was saved. I walked outside and everything was so beautiful to me! I love this hymn!

Ever since my conversion to the Lord Jesus Christ, this song has been my theme. It describes my conversion experience, especially verse two. Many modern songs encourage, but, the older songs were born out of real change of life styles, from sin to salvation through the death and resurrection of God's Son, Jesus Christ. The alternative tune is good too.

I first heard this hymn when I was a freshman in Bible College in 1958, but hadn't sung it for many decades. For some reason I awakened this morning (Thanksgiving Day) and it was running through my mind. I'd forgotten all but snippets of the lyrics, so googled it and found your site. My favorite line is "As long as God and I shall be, I am His and He is mine." That covers it all, doesn't it? Thanks for including it on your website.

LOVELY!!

When I first encountered this lovely hymn and came to the second verse I was startled. It perfectly describes what I experienced when I became a Christian (at age 13). It has always been a favourite for me, but is not contained in many hymn books these days so thank you for having the lyrics and music available on your site.

What a hymn!

I really appreciate your site! I am in the process of learning a new hymn a month and this was my first. No one I knew could tell me how it goes and I do not read music (it is all by ear for me) so I really appreciated your site's lyric list and audio!

Our 33 year old daughter has been told that she is at risk for "sudden cardiac death". The LORD is comforting me greatly through His Word and hymns, this being one of them! He brings peace, perspective, and even joy in the midst of our heart wrenching situation.

The atmosphere this hymn conveys is of a loving relationship with Christ, characterised by the most immediate and intimate sentiment and feeling in spirit, with a heart that affords the Lord a way to fully envelop one's being with that precious love and grace that is Himself. The rest here is not occasioned by outward circumstances of rest, but rather despite the "wild alarms", we are in His everlasting arms, enfolded in His rest. Despite creation and all its elements subjected to the slavery of corruption, heaven and earth becomes so pleasing to us when our vision and apprehension is so characterised and saturated by the presence of His endearing love. And most of all, despite the fleeting nature of all things that we currently perceive as established, the Lord's love brings us in absolute, eternal and unchanging union with Him. Most of all we know in this progressively deep loving union with the Lord: "I am His and He is mine".