What makes a love song?
Our world is full of love songs - folk songs, operatic arias, and every kind of modern song. This verse is a strongly theological doctrinal statement, not exactly the words of a love song, yet it means, 'He loves me'. Some time back in the 60s Sam Cooke more or less sang, 'Don't know much about theology. Don't know much about philosophy... but I do know that I love you and I know that if you loved me too, what a wonderful world this would be'. However much we know about theology and a lot of other things, we sometimes need to cut through it all and sing, simply, 'He died for me and he loves me'.
This one central event of all history, that Christ died, makes it possible for you and me and Peter to discover his love and forgiveness. He came to our world, in real time, to show us he loved us and he makes it a wonderful world. For Peter and for us there is a new love song. Like a transplant patient with a new heart, we have been brought back, at great cost, from the jaws of death, so that we live a life of joy in each new day. We sing a love song of overwhelming gratitude for totally requited love. 'If you loved me too, what a wonderful world this would be.' He does and it is.
My song is love unknown, my Saviour's love to me,
Love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be.
O, who am I, that for my sake
My Lord should take frail flesh and die
Here might I stay and sing, no story so divine; Never was love, dear King, never was grief like thine. This is my friend, in whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend.
Samuel Crossman 1664
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