Text:O love of God, how strong and true!
Author:Horatius Bonar
Tune:BROOKFIELD
Composer:Thomas B. Southgate

73. O love of God, how strong and true!

1 O love of God, how strong and true!
Eternal, and yet ever new;
Uncomprehended and unbought,
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.

2 O love of God, how deep and great!
Far deeper than man's deepest hate;
Self-fed, self-kindled like the light,
Changeless, eternal, infinite.

3 O heav'nly love, how precious still,
In days of weariness and ill,
In nights of pain and helplessness,
To heal, to comfort, and to bless!

4 O wide-embracing, wondrous love!
We read thee in the sky above,
We read thee in the earth below,
In seas that swell, and streams that flow.

5 We read thee best in him who came
To bear for us the cross of shame;
Sent by the Father from on high,
Our life to live, our death to die.

6 We read thy pow'r to bless and save,
E'en in the darkness of the grave;
Still more in resurrection light
We read the fulness of thy might.

7 O love of God, our shield and stay
Through all the perils of our way!
Eternal love, in thee we rest,
For ever safe, for ever blest.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: O love of God, how strong and true!
Author: Horatius Bonar (1861)
Meter: L. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1961
Scripture:
Topic: Christ: Substitute; God: Divine Perfections of; God: Glory of (6 more...)
Tune Information
Name: BROOKFIELD
Composer: Thomas B. Southgate (1855)
Meter: L. M.
Key: G Major



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