Hello, sweet ladies,
This wonderful hymn, “The Love of God” definitely makes me think of John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” What a wonderful promise from our loving Lord, but notice there IS a qualifier to that promise. To not perish and to have everlasting life, you MUST believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and act upon that belief by receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Acts 4:12 talks about this salvation, that is in Jesus Christ and in Him ALONE; it’s so clear, “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
“THE LOVE OF GOD”
1) 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:
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure:
the saints’ and angels’ song!
2) When years of 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 pure shall still endure,
all measureless and strong;
redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
the saints’ and angels’ song.
[Refrain]
3) Could we with ink the ocean fill
and were the skies of parchment made,
were ev’ry stalk on earth a quill
and ev’ry man a scribe by trade,
to write the love of God above
would drain the ocean dry;
nor could the scroll contain the whole,
tho’ stretched from sky to sky.
[Refrain]
The story behind “The Love of God”
Author: Frederick Martin Lehman, 1868-1953
Born: August 7, 1868, Mecklenburg, Schwerin, Germany. / Died: February 20, 1953, Pasadena, California. / Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.
Lehman emigrated to America with his family at age four, settling in Iowa, where he lived most of his childhood. He came to Christ at age 11.
Lehman studied for the ministry at Northwestern College in Naperville, Illinois, and pastored at Audubon, Iowa; New London, Indiana; and Kansas City, Missouri. The majority of his life was devoted to writing sacred songs; his first was written while a pastor in Kingsley, Iowa, in 1898.
He wrote and published hundreds of songs, and compiled five song books.
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