We don't sing it as much as we used to, but there is a song we used to sing a lot right before the Lord's Supper. You know it well. You've sung it hundreds, yeah, thousands of times. Here are the words:
Why did my Savior come to earth,
And to the humble go?
Why did He choose a lowly birth?
Because He loved me so!
He loved me so,
He loved me so;
He gave His precioius life for me, for me,
Because He loved me so.
I can't sing that song...at least not the way it's written. You see, the song is in past tense, i.e. "He loved me so." As if He once loved me, but that was in the past. Lamentations says that God's love is new every morning. I read of God's great love, present tense. I see and feel His love every day. So I sing (and I do it loudly) He loves me so, He loves me so; He gave His precious life for me, for me, Because He loves me so." Try it. People will wonder what you are singing and it will give you the chance to witness to them about what His love (present tense) means to you today. Have a great day. JW
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Funny you should say this. We're going to sing that chorus on Sunday...in the present tense...at the suggestion of one of my praise team members.
We're using it as a chorus after the first 2 verses of "Alas And Did My Savior Bleed" instead of the normal chorus (which is goofy and doesn't fit the verses in my opinion).
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