I’ve always wanted to write a song about the greatness of God’s love but well… I never knew where to begin. But one day; I read Ephesians 3:18 “Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of His love” and the line “so deep, so wide, so vast and high, is your great love for me” suddenly appeared in my head fitting into the melody perfectly. I remembered once, during Christian fellowship, we were asked to rank on a scale of 1-10 how much we felt God loved us that week. I initially said hmm maybe 7, because I had been relatively good; I had done my quiet time every day and also woke up early to go for worship practice that Sunday.

But I was wrong.

At the end of the Bible study I was reminded once again that God’s love is steadfast and unchanging, it doesn’t depend on how good (or bad) I’ve been; his love for us is as strong and as powerful as the day he sent his son to the cross to die for our sins.

And thus this song. :)

All through your perfect plans I see
One love that sacrificed for me
A son who came down to this earth
To die a death he didn’t deserve
How precious is this gift you gave
The day you chose my life to save
With your great love

Your love endures forever
All of my life I’ve seen
So deep and wide
So vast and high
Is your great love for me

I will not ever comprehend 
How for someone like me, you’d send
Your one and only treasured son
Who died saying “Your will be done”
How precious is this grace you give
I undeservedly receive
All your great love

And when I reach the final day
When even earth shall fade away
I’ll humbly bow before your throne
Offering what you’ve always owned
But what I could never repay
Even with a billion days
Is your great love

How deep and wide
How vast and high
Your great love for me

Your Great Love

“But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.” Psalms 59:16

“But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.” Psalms 31:14

I wrote the chorus of this song late one night in 2015 after coming home from PCCF (Christian fellowship) and feeling really tired and drained from being a cell leader. For some reason, this verse in Psalm (Psalms 59:16) had kept jumping into my life, the past couple of days, and so I got home, sat at my keyboard and (as quietly as possible) wrote it into a song that acknowledged my source of strength should always be God and not myself. 

And that stayed solely as a chorus for about a year. Mainly because I was lazy. But in 2016, the rest of the song finally took shape, with lots of references to Exodus, knowing that the Israelites would have never made it out of Egypt by their strength alone and seeing all the miracles God did to deliver them.

Lord you are my rock
In the seas of trial
Sail me to your heart
And my faith renew

Lord you are the staff
That can split the oceans
As for me
I trust in you

And I will sing of your strength 
In the morning
I will sing of your love
Forevermore
I will lift up my eyes
As I realise
My strength is in you Lord

Lord you are my guide 
Through the darkest valleys
You’ll be by my side
You will bring me through

Lord you are the fire
Walking through the desert
As for me
I trust in you

My strength is in you Lord
My strength is in you Lord
My strength is in you Lord
You are my strength O Lord

Strength

I wrote the chorus of this song in 2017, randomly one night on a long bus ride home and never knew what to do with it. But a while ago, the verses came to me and it suddenly clicked; wondering if we are worthy and doubting if God still loves us after all the wrong we’ve done is a very human thing. And yet what’s truly so amazing about God’s grace is that through every moment of doubt He assures us that we are preciously saved and loved more than we can ever comprehend. Romans 5:8 says “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” We did absolutely nothing to deserve this precious gift of grace but it was freely given nonetheless. 

And that’s something I hope I will never forget :)

There’s a book that says, every wrong I’ve done
Has been borne by you at the cross
Lord can it be true, if I keep hurting you
Time and time again with what I do

But you say that I’m worthy
And came down to redeem me
With the greatest love I’ve ever known
I know Lord, You’re near me
And you’ll never forsake, 
I’m preciously called by a king to be his own

All these years I’ve tried to comprehend
How amazing is your grace
Lord can it be true, when nothing that I do
Brings me closer to deserving you 

But you say that I’m worthy
You came down to redeem me
With the greatest love this world has known
I know Lord, You’re near me
And you’ll never forsake,
I’m preciously saved by a king still on the throne

By your grace, you died for me
In your eyes, I have been set free
I know Lord, you’re near me
And you’ll never forsake me
Preciously saved by a king still on the throne

Preciously called by a king to be his own
Preciously loved by a king still on the throne

Preciously

Homemade recordings of songs I've written over the past few years; please click on the titles for Bible verses + backstories + lyrics! :)

Soli Deo gloria //

Ally x

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