This song expresses the intimate love that is possible between a Christian and the Lord Jesus. The culminating desire of a love this deep is to be joined together with our Lord when we finally depart from this world and go home to be with Him in heaven. The Bible portrays believers as the bride of Christ in the final chapters of Revelation. Husbands are exhorted to “love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her.” (Ephesians 5:25) The most intimate love possible in this world, marriage, is but a picture of the love that can and will exist between Jesus and His people. So it is right and fitting to sing such intimate and tender lyrics like “seal me upon Your arm, and wear that pledge of love forever there” (v. 1) and “but I am jealous of my heart, lest it should once from You depart” (v. 3). May songs like this help us feel love for Jesus, a love that is better even than romantic love.
Lyrics
My Jesus on Your heart and hand:
Seal me upon Your arm, and wear
That pledge of love forever there.
Stronger than death, Your love will keep
Me from the terrors of the deep.
And hell and earth in vain combine
To quench a fire so much divine.
Chorus:
Come, my beloved, haste away,
Cut short the hours of Your delay.
Come rescue me from sin and death,
Make this plea my final breath -
Come and take me home at last;
Lord Jesus, come!
But I am jealous of my heart,
Lest it should once from You depart;
So let Your name be well engraved
To seal me as forever saved.
O, may my spirit daily rise
On wings of faith above the skies
'Till death will take my soul above
To dwell forever with my Love.
© 2004 Hymnicity