Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day so a lot of people are talking about love. Recently I was reading I John where it says, “We love him, because he first loved us.” (4:19)

So here is the amazing truth. We only have Valentine’s Day and celebrate love because God first loved us.

I love this song. Every verse emphasizes this marvellous love that the Father and the Son loved us enough to plan our redemption from sin even though it meant Jesus dying on the cross.

That God should love a sinner such as I
Should yearn to change my sorrow into bliss
Nor rest till He had planned to bring me nigh
How wonderful is love like this?

CHORUS
Such love, such wondrous love
Such love, such wondrous love
That God should love a sinner such as I
How wonderful is love like this.

That Christ should join so freely in the scheme
Although it meant His death on Calvary
Did ever human tongue find nobler theme
Than love divine that ransomed me?

That for a wilful outcast such as I
The Father planned, the Saviour bled and died
Redemption for a worthless slave to buy
Who long had law and grace defied.

And now He takes me to His heart a son
He asks me not to fill a servant’s place
The far-off country wand’rings all are done
Wide open are His arms of grace.

~C. Bishop