God’s Power of Love
GOD is LOVE
Whoever has love in his heart
Has God within him;
God’s quest for the heart of man
Has existed from the beginning,
God’s loving quest will continue un-ending.
The loving hound of heaven will
Ceaselessly pursue humanity
Until each soul is accounted for;
Until His blessings of love and peace reach each heart
And man realises he must do his part,
To love God and his neighbour.
His love found Moses in the wilderness
Moses in flight,
Was enabled by God’s might
To part the Red Sea and deliver the Israelite
From their plight.
His love found David, the Shepherd boy
And empowered him to defeat Goliath, who terrified his people,
With a sling and pebble.
His love saved Daniel in the lion’s den
And then,
Miraculously delivered Shadrach, Meshach,
Abed-Nego from the white–hot furnace,
They were sent.
His love for humanity found expression
In the incarnation
Of Christ, our Lord and Saviour;
His love healed the sick, the lame, the deaf,
The blind, the dumb, the demon-possessed, the leper,
He raised from the dead: Jairus’ daughter, the widow’s son at Nain
Also, Lazarus, four day’s later.
In His love, our Holy Lord died for our sins
To God, a self-sacrifice,
That could only suffice
To redeem mankind.
In His love, Christ sent His Holy Spirit
As helper, counsellor, comforter;
To know and love Him and enable us
To become the children of our Heavenly Father.
Shirley Lau