Matt Papa's worship song What love could remember was written in this century but owes its greatest line to an 18th Century sermon by John Newton which inspired it:
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
Among great hymn lines it is hard to imagine a greater one than this. We come to worship trying to block out of our thoughts the behaviours of another week, the things undone or scarcely done or wrongly done. Yet in coming to our great yet forgiving and merciful God we discover that the pile of detriment is dwarfed by the sea of mercy. Something John Newton had needed to depend on more than many.
Hallelujah.
For other blogs in this series click on the 'hymnline' tag
No comments:
Post a Comment