He loves you

He loves you

My friend, I wonder how you see God

Do you think above all and everything you've done

That you are loved and cherished dear

That you are someone's beloved one

Well let me tell you pure and simple

And let this plan truth blow you away

The God who made the universe

Calls you his most beloved child today.

Do you feel like Ruth, my friend,

A gentile waif, displaced, lost and bereaved 

Waiting on the threshing floor in faith

Because a simple promise she believed

But remember the ending to the story

Her father looked down on her with love

We may have once not known him

But he redeemed her through his love.

Maybe you feel you're like the woman

Who drew water at midday from Samaria's well

Shunned by so many around her, you see

As her life choices had made we despised and ashamed

Nobody looked on her with love, fondly

Yet in steps our Jesus who moves to the heart

And as she admits all the sin and her shame

He calls her his own, says her history's behind her

And names her his beloved, the most precious of names.

Maybe you're like Peter who, in the heat of the moment

Chose to disown Jesus and just run away

And with shame he looked on as his saviour died

In all things, I'd imagine he felt he'd lost his way.

Yet, when Jesus appeared on a beach near his friends

And they gathered to eat as family once more

He treated this man as his brother and friend

Forgiving love was the language Jesus used to restore.

Maybe you feel like Eve or Adam,

One great mistake, it's all over

One bite and you're kicked out

No hope of return

That angel stands guard with a flaming sword

And apology you make you feel would simply be spurned.

Yet here is the God who held true to his promise

That the sin in the garden would one day be broken

And, in the greatest of love, stepped down into the world

And took our stain on Him, that we'd be forever forgiven.

So if you are wondering or unsure today

Whether this Jesus looks on you with a slither of love

Know fully in each day this bright, burning truth

Of our Father who stands both with you and above.

That his choice to die for you that day 

Was a choice that holds for you in all that you've done and you'll do

This Jesus, our saviour, in each and every thing

Looks upon you, looks to you, looks in you then at you and says with a voice that spoke life to the world

That rose Lazarus to life

And caused a rainbow to unfurl

With a voice that speaks life and truth in every word, whether many or few,

He would say three words you're to always remember:

I love you.