So near, so very near to God
Nearer I could not be
For in the person of his Son
I’m just as near as he.
So dear, so very dear to God
Dearer I could not be
The love wherewith he loved his Son
Is the love he has for me!
-- a poem quoted by Ray Ortlund, Jr. in a tribute he wrote to his father
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