Love of God

"God is love" 1John 4:16
At times it overwhelms me....

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.

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.

Hallelujah!

O love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints' and angels' song.

The lyrics are based on the Jewish poem Hadamut, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, a cantor in Worms, Germany; they have been translated into at least 18 languages.

Music: “Love of God,” Frederick M. Lehman; arranged by Claudia L. Mays (the author’s daughter).

This portion of the hymn recorded by Mercy Me on Spoken For CD.