I am His and He is Mine

Loved with everlasting love, led by grace that love to know;
Gracious Spirit from above, Thou hast taught me it is so!
O this full and perfect peace! O this transport all divine!
In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine.
In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine.

Heav’n above is softer blue, Earth around is sweeter green!
Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen;
Birds with gladder songs o’erflow, flowers with deeper beauties shine,
Since I know, as I now know, I am His, and He is mine.
Since I know, as I now know, I am His, and He is mine.

Things that once were wild alarms cannot now disturb my rest;
Closed in everlasting arms, pillowed on the loving breast.
O to lie forever here, doubt and care and self resign,
While He whispers in my ear, I am His, and He is mine.
While He whispers in my ear, I am His, and He is mine.

His forever, only His; Who the Lord and me shall part?
Ah, with what a rest of bliss Christ can fill the loving heart!
Heav’n and earth may fade and flee, firstborn light in gloom decline;
But while God and I shall be, I am His, and He is mine.
But while God and I shall be, I am His, and He is mine

The lyrics to this hymn written by George Wade Robinson were used in a book I was reading and I was so moved. I am now looking for a recording to download.

This song is just too perfect for where God has me and what He is teaching me. The apostle Paul writes to the Ephesians and says that it is his prayer that they may know the full dimensions of God's love and that it is in that they would be made more holy and God would be most glorified.

If experiencing and knowing God's love is what glorifying to Him, why am I running away from Him? Why am I running away from the intimacy that would mature and complete me?

Reality is that I am far mor self-centered than Christ centered. So as Paul prayed, now I pray.