...So He Sent His Son
(Hymns, No. 187, 3rd verse)
Oh, love effulgent, love divine
What debt of gratitude is mine,
That in His offering I have part
And hold a place within His heart.
Effulgent is a good word. Effulgent: shining forth brilliantly; radiant.
We sang this hymn in church today. The third verse struck me particularly. It is quite an extraordinary thing to believe in, and yet I feel something - I don't know - cosmic whisper to me that it's true. I'm grateful I have felt God's love for me and that I've felt his love for other people. Especially while preparing for seminary during times of prayer and reflection I often felt that God loves and cares for those teenagers and wants them to be happy. I believe God is the source of the love that I felt for them. It was sometimes quite overwhelming.
You could say, if you were quite poetic, that it was effulgent.
Funny, the only thing I've ever felt from "God" was a sense of supreme indifference. I just don't need any more of that.
ReplyDelete"Funny" is not the word I'd choose, but I understand what you're saying, Mark.
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