Heights and Depths

Has ever greater tale been told
Of pathos, love and loss
Than Jesus in a stable born
Then dying on a cross?

Has ever page or stage portrayed
Such all-consuming love?
Has ever in the songs of man
Such love been spoken of?

Oh, many's the tale that has been told
Of love of smitten man
For maiden fair, that did his best
That he might win her hand.

But in the Gospel tale is told -
Oh, let us praise and laud -
The bleeding love for all mankind
Of an all-loving God

For the race of fallen man
That had despised, rejected Him,
Was born, lived, died and rose again
That He might free us from our sin.

Such heights and depths of love excell
All works made here below;
But 'tis for you and 'tis for me
This love of God to know.

Revelation

We don't discover spiritual truth on our own, not the solid, lasting kind that permeates our being and sets us right. Instead, God reveals it to us by His various methods. This is seen clearly in the Christmas story where all announcement of and guidance to the birth of the Messiah came from divine sources.

Had the angel not appeared to Zacharias
Or to Mary or to shepherds in the field;
If the wise men had no eastern star to guide them

- No one would have known

That the holy Son of God had come, a Savior,
For such revelation comes from God above
To those He would desire to know this treasure;

- Thus the light is shone.

Perhaps no angels have appeared to tell you
And no star has come to'illuminate your way;
But still God would disclose to hungry seekers

- This truth from above.

And like the shepherds, or the wise, or Zacharias
God will reveal to you the wond'rous great good news
That there's a Savior born to all mankind now -

- Jesus, His Son of Love.