Until You’ve Known the Love of God

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 3:19).

I first heard this song about twenty years ago at Liberty Baptist Church, Kingston, Tennessee, but Until You’ve Known the Love of God is a favorite. The theme is my favorite: God’s love for us. So many people either don’t realize that love or will not accept His love. Even as Christians do we really comprehend His sacrificial love?

Rather than give some expository explanation I offer you 1 John 4:7-21.

[7] Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. [8] He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [9] In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. [10] Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. [11] Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. [12] No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. [13] Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. [14] And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. [15] Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. [16] And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. [17] Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. [18] There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. [19] We love him, because he first loved us. [20] If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? [21] And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Do you love God? He loves you.

Rusty Goodman cover photo,

Rusty Goodman wrote the lyrics and music for Until You’ve Known the Love of God. The song was published in 1965.

1. If you could own all the world and it’s money,
Build castles tall enough to reach the sky above;
If you could know everything there was to know about life’s game,
Yet you’ve known nothing until you’ve known God and His love.

Chorus: Until you’ve known the loving hand that reaches down to a fallen man
And lifts him up from out of sin where he has trod;
Until you’ve known just how it feels to know that God is really real;
Then you’ve known nothing until you’ve known the love of God.

Sources: Gospel Choruses and Songs, King James Bible