There Is A Name!
"He who does not love does
not know God, for God is love."
1 John 4: 8
When Frederick Whitfield (1829-1904) was a student at Trinity
College Dublin, he wrote a poem that said: “There is a name I
love to hear, I love to speak its worth; it sounds like music in
mine ear, the sweetest name on earth.”
Whitfield went on to describe what that name does for us.
It tells us of a Savior’s love; it tells us of a Father’s smile;
it bids our trembling soul
rejoice.
Whitfield’s words were combined with a tune that
added a chorus based on 1 John 4:19: “Oh, how
I love Jesus, because He first loved me!”
Because our Lord first loved us, we can be confident that our
relationship with Him is not based on what we do. It’s based on
who He is and what He’s like. His nature is love, and His love
for us is unconditional and uninterrupted.
As A. W. Tozer said, “Because God is self-existent, His love
has no beginning; because He is eternal, His love can have
no end; because He is infinite, it has no limit.”Oh, how He
loves you!
"It tells me what my Father hath in store for
every day, and though I tread a darksome
path, yields sunshine all the way."
Frederick Whitfield
