I love this hymn and I love this recording of it.
It's one of several hymns and songs that I learned when I first knew Jesus.
- My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine;
For Thee all the follies of sin I resign;
My gracious Redeemer, my Saviour art Thou;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now. - I love Thee because Thou hast first loved me,
And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree;
I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now. - I’ll love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death,
And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath;
And say when the death dew lies cold on my brow,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now. - In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I’ll ever adore Thee in heaven so bright;
I’ll sing with the glittering crown on my brow,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now. - (William R. Featherston 1864)
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I love this hymn. I once heard a pastor say that when God the Father spoke from heaven regarding his Son, he was really saying, “If ever I loved thee, my Jesus ‘tis now.”
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The first time I heard it, I was fifteen and had just got to know Jesus. Like all teenagers, music was very important to e, and back in those days it was all vinyl discs — "records" — not even cassette tapes yet then. Our family had very little money, and I hadn't yet got my Saturday job at the supermarket, but a friend lent me a record payer (God bless him) on long term loan, and other friends would lend me records. We did have a family record player that my father made from a kit for the main components and repurposing a bathroom stool for the frame, cutting up an old vertex shirt for cloth to stretch across the holes for the speakers — but my borrowed one I could have in my own room. And someone lent me a record called "God's People Give Thanks", which was a recording of a service of worship, I think. All I remember from it was this one track, "My Jesus, I love Thee," which had a very hushed, slow, quality about it, and the resonance of being recorded live in the church. I used to listen to it over and over. I've never heard it anywhere since, until I found the recording on this post, on YouTube.
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