My Jesus I Love Thee

My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine;
For Thee all the follies of sin I resign.
My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

I love Thee because Thou has first loved me,
And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree.
I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

I’ll love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death,
And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath;
And say when the death dew lies cold on my brow,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I’ll ever adore Thee in heaven so bright;
I’ll sing with the glittering crown on my brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

We sang this hymn today in chapel. The message given today was particularly challenging. Jesus: Fully God, Fully human. How do we come to grips with this? Well, judging from the way we respond to ourselves and each other, we don't do it very consistently. 'I'm only human.' This is an all too common response given when someone is attempting to justify some act they've committed, usually sinful in nature. Well, what does this mean? Jesus was fully human and he did not sin. But, wait, he was also fully God, which must have made it easier for him to live a sinless life, or so we assume. This notion cannot be true or we lack consistency in our theological beliefs. If Jesus did not experience the 100% authentic human life with all of it's temptations, hardships, and difficulties, then his death does not atone for 100% of our sinfulness. God cannot redeem what he is not capable of overcoming. Thus, Jesus had to have experienced all of our humanity. So, Jesus could have been attracted to a girl. Jesus could have lost at a race or a contest. Jesus might have hit his thumb with a hammer and yelled. Jesus probably experienced sexual arousal. We know that Jesus got angry enough push over tables in the temple. Jesus called people liars and fools. He experienced the full breadth of humanity without sin entering in at all. So, what, again is our justification for these things we allow to rule us to the point of sinfulness?