MHB 52 – O LOVE of God, how strong and true

Methodist-Hymns-052

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 heavenly love, how precious still,
In days of weariness and ill,
In nights of pain and helplessness,
To heal, to comfort, and to bless.

3: 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.

4: 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.

5: We read thee power to bless and save
Een in the darkness of the grave;
Still more in resurrection light
We read the fulness of Your might.

6: 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.