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Believers Hymn Book · No. 290 · Words: Gerhard Tersteegen · Tune: Giessen
Thou hidden love of God, Whose height
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A 1729 translation by John Wesley of German pietist Gerhard Tersteegen's poem 'Verborgne Gottesliebe du,' expressing longing for God's hidden love and a total surrender of self to Christ. The hymn echoes Augustine's restless-heart theme while drawing on Tersteegen's deep mystical piety.
Verse 1
Thou hidden love of God, Whose height,
Whose depth unfathomed no man knows,
I see from far Thy beauteous light,
And inly sigh for Thy repose:
My heart is pained, nor can it be
At rest till it finds rest in Thee.
Verse 2
Is there a thing beneath the sun
That strives with Thee my heart to share?
O tear it thence, and reign alone
The Lord of every motion there!
Then shall my heart from earth be free,
When it has found repose in Thee.
Verse 3
O hide this self from me that I
No more, but Christ in me may live!
My vile affections mortify,
Nor let one darling sin survive:
In all things nothing may I see,
Nothing desire, or seek, but Thee.
Verse 4
Each moment calls from earth away
My heart which lowly waits Thy call;
Speak to my inmost soul and say,
"I am thy Life, thy God, thy All!"
To know Thy power, to hear Thy voice,
To feel Thy love, be all my choice.
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