{"id":15447,"date":"2025-05-14T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2025-04-29T05:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:34:16","slug":"the-unsung-hymns-podcast-18-jesus-the-very-thought-of-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/the-unsung-hymns-podcast-18-jesus-the-very-thought-of-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unsung Hymns Podcast – 18 – Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cJesus, The Very Thought of Thee\u201d a hymn by Bernard of Clairvaux, French mystic, monk, and influential church leader in the Middle Ages; (1090 \u2013 1153).<\/span><\/p>\n

The music for this reading is “Love & Generosity<\/a>” and “Christmas Eve<\/a>” both by Borrtex<\/a> and were adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Jesus, the very thought of Thee
\nWith sweetness fills my breast;
\nBut sweeter far Thy face to see,
\nAnd in Thy presence rest.<\/p>\n

Nor voice can sing, nor heart can frame,
\nNor can the memory find
\nA sweeter sound than Thy blest Name,
\nO Savior of mankind!<\/p>\n

O Hope of every contrite heart,
\nO Joy of all the meek,
\nTo those who fall, how kind Thou art!
\nHow good to those who seek!<\/p>\n

But what to those who find? Ah, this
\nNor tongue nor pen can show;
\nThe love of Jesus, what it is
\nNone but His loved ones know.<\/p>\n

O Jesus! light of all below!
\nThou fount of life and fire!
\nSurpassing all the joys we know,
\nAnd all we can desire.<\/p>\n

No other source have we but Thee,
\nSoul-thirst to satisfy.
\nExhaustless spring! the waters free!
\nAll other streams are dry.<\/p>\n

Jesus, our only Joy be Thou,
\nAs Thou our Prize wilt be;
\nJesus, be Thou our Glory now,
\nAnd through eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cJesus, The Very Thought of Thee\u201d a hymn by Bernard of Clairvaux, French mystic, monk, and influential church leader in the Middle Ages; (1090 \u2013 1153). The music for this reading is “Love & Generosity” and “Christmas Eve” both by Borrtex and were adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0) Jesus,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":1,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[684],"tags":[680,547],"class_list":["post-15447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-unsung-hymns-podcast","tag-devotional","tag-hymn","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TUHP-Post_Image_800HX500H.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15448,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions\/15448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}