Lost in Love
"To love is all my wish,
I only live for this:
Grant me, Lord, my heart's desire,
There by faith for ever dwell:
This I always will require
Thee and only thee to feel.
Thy power I pant to prove
Rooted and fixed in love,
Strengthened by thy Spirit's might,
Wise to fathom things divine,
What the length and breadth and height,
What the depth of love like thine.
Ah! Give me this to know
With all thy saints below.
Swells my soul to compass thee,
Gasps in thee to live and move,
Filled with all the deity,
All immersed and lost in love!"
"Charles Wesley was fixated on love. The opening line of this hymn, 'To love is all my wish,' aptly describes his life and his singular aspiration. Wesley had a mystical bent that surfaces dramatically here. It is clear that he seeks to be swallowed up in God's love. All our loves find their beginning and ending in this great love that defines all life."
