Valentine's Day Post (a few days late)

For Valentine's Day, one of my favorite hymns. It speaks of God's love in a way that always leaves me in awe. By Frederick Lehman (1868-1953) and #78 in your BSF Leader's Hymnal...

The Love of God:
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.

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

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 sure shall still endure,
All measureless and strong:
Redeeming grace to Adam's race -
The saints' and angels' song.

chorus
(this next verse is my favorite, read and then really think about it)
Could we with ink the ocean fill
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were ev'ry 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.

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Seriously, as I consider those words I am amazed at God's love and how the composer captured the truth so well in those verse.

The apostle John said: "Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written." (John 21:25)

pretty awesome.

May you experience more of the Lord's love today than yesterday!

Tiffani