He gave his life, what more can he give?!

This is a hymn that i grew up with:

O how He loves you and me
O how He loves you and me
He gave his life, what more can he give?
O how He loves you
O how He loves me
O how He loves you and me

When i was young i thought it was a beautiful song.

after i while i realise that the theology is somewhat questionable.

The phrasing of the question "He gave his life, what more can he give?" suggest an answer in the negative.

But we can see that in the bible, that it does not answer the question in this way:

Romans 5:9-10

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Romans 8:32-34

32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

Notice that Paul argues that because of Jesus death, we can have HOPE in better things. All too often we don't operate in hope, hence our Christain life malfunctions. I reckon that guy in shawshank redemption has a better idea of Christian life than most Christians (although his hope is based on his own efforts). At time i reckon we are quite pathetic when we hope so little in the sure promises of God.

this - the importance of tursting in God's future provision - is the very point that Piper argues in the book future grace.