That ye...may be able to comprehend...what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge...Ephesians 3:17-19.
“O love of God, how strong and true! Eternal and
yet ever new;
Uncomprehended and unbought, Beyond all
knowledge and all thought.
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.
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!
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.
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. Amen.
We read thy power to bless and save, e’en in the
darkness of the grave;
Still more in resurrection light We read the
fullness of thy might.
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.”
-From a hymn by Horatius Bonar, 1861
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