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The Love of God

We sing about God’s love. 

We read the scriptures about His love. 

We hear sermons about His love. 

Sometimes we even stop and think about it.

We talk about how good He is to us,

but I do not think we can begin to comprehend His love

until we go through the fire and the testing

and through it all He is there beside us. 

He doesn’t leave us. 

He doesn’t turn His back on us. 

He doesn’t think we are too much of a problem to bother with. 

He loves us.

I love this old song that expresses it so well. 

     The Love of God

       Frederick M. Lehman

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

Refrain:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

When hoary time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

Frederick Lehman tells us that verse 3 “had been found penciled on the wall

of a patient’s room in an insane asylum after he had been carried to his grave.”

It will soon be Valentine’s Day.  Here is my Valentine to you!

  

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 Have a wonderful week!