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God's Love and Mine

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 32.

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God's Love and Mine

By William Baxter

O LORD, I love thee, but how far Is mortal love, from love like thine! Mine like myself is poor and weak, Thine like thyself is all divine.
To thine, mine only seems a drop Compared with a vast, boundless sea; Or like a single grain of sand Compared with all immensity.
Mine like a faint, dim, twinkling star, With little warmth, with little light; Thine, like the glorious sun that floods All worlds with splendors warm and bright.
Though weak my love, and strong thine own, I know if I on thee believe, Though I no love like thine can show, Yet thy great love I can receive.
Just as our earth, though hard and cold, Yet vernal suns and vernal showers Can clothe it with an emerald robe, And deck it with the sweetest flowers, So my poor heart, though hard and cold, Warmed by thy wondrous love to me, Shall blossom with the brighter flowers Of love and gratitude to thee.
W. BAXTER, Christian Monitor.