When done right, music can be such a powerful means of expressing deep theological truths. The are few things as beautiful as when the love of God is expressed through a well written song. With this in mind, let me share with you the following quote from Sinclair Ferguson's book "Grow in Grace" along with a short video that tells the story behind the chorus "How He Loves".

"How you view God determines the quality and style of your Christian experience. Many Christians spend much of their lives paralyzed because, although they have trusted Christ as Saviour, they have never really seen what His sacrifice teaches us about the character of God. He gave His Son; He sent His Son; He handed over His Son because He loves us.

If we have deep-seated fears that God does not really love us (as many Christians have), we can only go so far in growing nearer to God. There will come a point at which we will fear to trust Him any further because we cannot be sure of His love. When we look at ourselves, or our own faith, or our circumstances we will never be free from those lurking fears. Satan will see to that. But when we lift up our eyes and look on the cross we find the final persuasion that God is gracious towards us. How can he be against us when all His wrath against us fell upon Christ? How can He fail to care for us when He gave the only Son He had for our sake? How can we doubt Him when He has given us evidence of His love sufficient to banish all doubts?

God’s love is the most awesome thing about Him. It is not His justice, nor His majesty, nor even His blazing holiness, but the fact that He has made and keeps a covenant of personal commitment and love to His people."

- Sinclair Ferguson, Grow in Grace

Here is the link to the video:

How He Loves : A Song Story from john mark mcmillan on Vimeo.

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