I HAVE NEVER BEGUN TO LOVE YOU

While I'm preparing the next study, I'll post some excerpts from my favorite authors. This first one is a poem by one of my favorite contemporary Bible teachers (most of the guys I study have been home with the Lord for over a hundred years!).  I'm very particular about words and how they are used (as some of you know, having heard me change lyrics when I sing along with Christian songs). I love Ed's Bible teaching, he gives meticulous attention to the words of Scripture and to the way the Divine Author uses them. Even when teaching doctrinal principles, Ed's poetic voice hums in the background as He appeals to the visual mind. You will see what I mean as you read this poem!

 
I HAVE NEVER BEGUN TO LOVE YOU
by Ed Miller

(Jeremiah 31:3)

I have never begun to love you;
You were ever, my heart's delight,
Before galaxies swarmed, before matter was formed,
Before angel hosts ever took flight.

In the unbeginning beginning,
When, in silence, I reigned above,
In My purpose I knew I would always love you
With an everlasting love!

When your life and your sin were future,
Long before you began to be,
Then, I already knew, all the things you would do
To provoke and to aggravate Me!

In My love, I sent you a Savior;
You had not seen the light of day;
Generations would turn long before you would learn,
That I washed your sins away!

When in wisdom and skill I formed you,
As a weaver would work a loom,
You were never aware, I was loving you there,
In the darkness and depths of the womb!

I watched over you and your mother
'Till the hour of your precious birth,
With one life from the cord, and one life from the Lord,
You were welcomed to the earth!

In the fullness of time, I drew you;
You were moved by My awesome Grace;
I revealed My Son, and the work He had done;
You responded by seeking My face!

Not the unsung glories of Heaven;
Not the sight of Jesus above,
Can add more to the length, or increase on the strength
Of My everlasting love!