Lyrics
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love;
Too vast and astounding to tell.
Forever existing in worlds above,
Now offered and given to all.
Oh fountain of beauty eternal;
The Father, the Spirit, the Son.
Sufficient and endlessly generous:
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
Creation is brimming with thankfulness,
The mountains, exultant they stand;
The seasons rejoice in Your faithfulness,
All life is sustained by Your hand.
You crown every meadow with color;
You paint every shade in the sky;
Each day the dawn wakes as an encore of
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
How great, how sure;
His love endures forevermore.
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
What grace, that you entered our brokenness;
You came in the fullness of time.
How far we had fallen from righteousness,
But not from the mercies of Christ.
Your cross is our door to redemption;
Your death is our fullness of life.
That day, how forgiveness flowed as a flood:
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
United in Your resurrection,
You lift us to infinite heights.
Could anything sever or take us from
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
How great, how sure;
His love endures forevermore.
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
Devotional Thought
In Ephesians 3:14-19, Paul makes very clear what it was that he desired for those who were a part of the church in Ephesus: For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height - to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Paul desired that God's people be strengthened by the power of the Holy Spirit working within them. He desired that Christ rule and dwell within their hearts through faith. And he desired that they might be able to comprehend the vastness of God's love shown through Jesus Christ so that they could in turn be filled with the fullness of God. Even though it's impossible to fully comprehend the love of God in Christ (as the second line of this song expresses - "too vast and astounding to tell"), the more we reflect on His love, the more we come to recognize that it truly is magnificent, marvelous, and matchless.
In spite of our continual sinning, shortcomings, and stumbling, Christ continues to "enter our brokenness" each day, proving to us us over and over again that His love is indeed an enduring, everlasting love—a love from which nothing can separate us (Romans 8:35-39).
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