Love Lifted Me

Humble yourselves before the Lord,

and He will lift you up.

James 4:10

My father always said that new cars were wonderful to own and drive, but the value of your new vehicle plummets the minute you drive it off the car lot – because then it becomes a used car.  The same, in some ways, can be said about church hymnals.  Almost as soon as a hymnal is printed, it is “outdated” for many, and there comes a call for a “supplement” to provide the hymns and songs that are missing.

A few years after the supplement, The Faith We Sing, was published in the year 2000 by the United Methodist Church, there came a widespread call for another contemporary hymnal to be published.  When congregations across the country were poled for suggestions for this new hymnal, the #1 requested song was not a contemporary chorus, but a hymn written in 1912 by James Rowe – Love Lifted Me. 

 

Love Lifted Me /  The Forester Sisters