Jesus Your Love – New Song

We introduced this song a few weeks ago and I’ve wanted to write about it for a while. You can hear from the artist briefly in the video to the left.

Songs like this don’t take a whole lot of explanation to justify why we sing them. These lyrics speak for themselves but I want to ground the ideas of this song in scripture. For me, knowing that the songs I sing are rooted in the ideas of scripture helps me to sing them with deeper joy and conviction.

I count 25 occurrences of the phrase, “unfailing love” in the psalms. Texts like Psalm 13:5 say, “But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.” In Titus 1 Paul opens his letter with this statement that God promised salvation and that He (God) cannot lie. God’s love for us is secured upon the foundation of His nature. When we step into relationship with God through Jesus, God stakes his reputation on loving us well. Yeah, his love for us is pretty strong! This song says, “sure as the sun, the moon, the stars remain Your love for me will never change.” The reality is God’s love is more sure then the sun, moon, and stars.

I also love the line, “when seasons change and stories end.” If God’s love is so sure and steadfast then IT and ONLY IT will never change. Everything else in life is in flux but there is nothing in heaven or on earth that can change the “steady love” of God. If the texts I already shared don’t convince you, check this one out:

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

(Romans 8:37–39 ESV)

Yeah, it’s pretty steady love!

I’m not going to focus on every line of this song but I do want to highlight one more. In the final verse it says, “there is a strength that rises up in me to know that You’ve been here before me.” This idea is one of the great benefits we have as christians. There are at least two ideas I see here.

First, we know that God sees all our circumstances and their ultimate purpose in our lives. He has been there before us. This truth mingled with the depth of his love means we can face all situations safe in God’s plan. Second, we actually have a God who knows what it is like to be human. The incarnation (thats the theological term for when God became human in Jesus) is beautiful because we have a God who understands our frailty. “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15).” God doesn’t put us through hard things without understanding the difficulty of them.

Let’s sing this song and remind ourselves of these truths.

So let my heart tell You again
When seasons change and stories end
Your steady love
It will sustain me through it all
Je – sus, Your love

So let my heart tell You again
When seasons change and stories end
Your steady love
It will sustain me through it all
Je – sus, Your love

There is a strength that rises up in me
To know that You’ve been here be – fore me
A strength beyond what I can see
Jesus, Your lo – o – ove
Je – sus, Your love

So let my heart tell You again
When seasons change and stories end
Your steady love
It will sustain me through it all
Je – sus, Your love