It passeth knowledge, that dear love of Thine
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It passeth knowledge, that dear love of Thine, My Savior, Jesus; yet this soul of mine Would of Thy love in all its breadth and length, Its height and depth, its everlasting strength, Know more and more. |
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It passeth telling, that dear love of Thine, My Savior, Jesus; yet these lips of mine Would fain proclaim to sinners, far and near, A love which can remove all guilty fear, And love beget. |
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It passeth praises, that dear love of Thine, My Savior, Jesus; yet this heart of mine Would sing that love, so full, so rich, so free, Which brings a rebel sinner, such as me, Nigh unto God. |
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But though I cannot sing, or tell, or know The fulness of Thy love, while here below, My empty vessel I may freely bring; O Thou, who art of love the living spring, My vessel fill. |
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I am an empty vessel—not one thought Or look of love to Thee I’ve ever brought; Yet I may come, and come again to Thee, With this the empty sinner’s only plea, Thou lovest me. |
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Oh, fill me, Jesus, Savior, with Thy love! Lead, lead me to the living fount above; Thither may I, in simple faith draw nigh, And never to another fountain fly, But unto Thee. |
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Lord Jesus, when Thee face to face I see, When on Thy lofty throne I sit with Thee, Then of Thy love, in all its breadth and length, Its height and depth, its everlasting strength, My soul shall sing. |
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Some hymns may be in the same category and of the same subject but have a different feeling. Every hymn has its feeling. For example, "It passeth knowledge, that dear love of Thine" (Hymns, #154) is a hymn for remembering the Lord and has the Lord's love as its subject. The feeling of this hymn is fine, sweet, and tender. The feeling of other hymns may not be as fine as this one, even though their subject is the Lord's love. Some hymns have a fine feeling and are also poetic. Other hymns, however, may not be poetic. In learning the hymns, we need to know their categories and subject so that we can further distinguish them according to their feeling.
Mission Viejo, California, United States
I love this song even if I am only nine it’s so sweet and I love the Lord and I also love the tune and when I first heard this song I loved and kept in singing it and now it is stuck in my head. I bet my hole family will love this song because my family is Christian hope all of you love this song too!
McKinney, TX, United States
My soul shall sing
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
One of my favorites. Brings me back to the reality of the gospel!
Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa
I love this song cause our Father's love is free. Although I come to Him again and again, He accept me . I could sing it over and over again. Amen!
Port Shepstone, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
I would like to say "when at His lofty Throne I bow the knee" A sinner like me is not worthy to sit with Jesus. I have loved the song since I first sang it at Clarkebury Institution in 1971.
Hong Kong
we praise You Lord Jesus
Mozambique
My soul shall sing!!
Anaheim, California, United States
It passeth knowledge, that dear love of Thine,
My Savior, Jesus; yet this soul of min
Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Mary Shekleton was born in 1827, in Dublin, Ireland. She was taught by her young widowed mother who as a Christian had four small girls to bring up aged between 6 years and 6 months. Mrs. Shekleton was on a steep learning curve growing rapidly in her faith and knowledge of the Bible while praying with and for her daughters as well as reading to and with them God’s word.
Fragile from birth and apparently doomed with tuberculosis, Mary showed spiritual awareness from her earliest years, knowing the
Lord for as long as she could remember.
In 1852 both her tutor and mother were taken by death. Surviving as an invalid, especially from 1861 onwards, close to death and in 1872 Mary worked as secretary of the “Invalid Prayer Union” which she founded later that year. She formed a network of more than 300 household contacts who became her friends by correspondence, news and prayer. The IPU grew from positive responses and later without her knowledge, a letter was published in the journal “ Women’s Work in the Great Spiritual Harvest Field. ” She provided her contacts with some basic practical rules: Scripture reading, prayer topics, a prayerfully chosen prayer motto, and some brief devotional comments. She was fully occupied with this work and sewing for charitable causes; her writing was honest, aware of failure, sometimes witty, always thankful, never gloomy or critical of others, full of nuggets of scriptural truth combined with practical common sense.
Her visits to church were rare because of her condition but they were a delight to her.... to join in public worship with the people of God. “I found myself in the house of God after an absence of nearly 20 years! ”
She appreciated the hills and coastline of Monkstown and Bray just South of Dublin. Once she reluctantly agreed to be photographed for the sake of those who had never seen her countenance before.
By 1883, she had become too weak to continue and died in September of that year. Near the end she would repeat, “Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness, my beauty are, my glorious dress. ” In the following year her sister Margaretta of Kingston, Dublin published “ Chosen Chastened and Crowned—Memorials is Mary Shekleton. ”
Kenai, Alaska, United States
Tonga Free Wesleyan hymn 535. What a blessing.
Malo