O How I Love Jesus

There is a name I love to hear

I love to speak its worth;

It sounds like mu­sic in mine ear

The sweet­est name on earth.

O how I love Je­sus

O how I love Je­sus

O how I love Je­sus

Because He first loved me!

It tells me of a Sav­ior’s love

Who died to set me free;

It tells me of His pre­cious blood

The sin­ner’s per­fect plea.

It tells me of a Fa­ther’s smile

Beaming up­on His child;

It cheers me through this lit­tle while

Through de­sert

waste

and wild.

It tells me what my Fa­ther hath

In store for ev­ery day

And though I tread a dark­some path

Yields sun­shine all the way.

It tells of One whose lov­ing heart

Can feel my deep­est woe;

Who in my sor­row bears a part

That none can bear be­low.

It bids my tremb­ling heart re­joice;

It dries each ris­ing tear;

It tells me

in a still small voice

To trust and nev­er fear.

Jesus

the name I love so well

The name I love to hear!

No saint on earth its worth can tell

No heart con­ceive how dear.

This name shall shed its frag­rance still

Along this thor­ny road

Shall sweet­ly smooth the rug­ged hill

That leads me up to God.

And there

with all the blood-bought throng

From sin and sor­row free

I’ll sing the new eter­nal song

Of Je­sus’ love to me.