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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 79 · Words: Horatius Bonar
O Love of God, How Strong and True!
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A lyric meditation on the eternal, boundless love of God as supremely revealed in Christ's incarnation and atoning death, written by Scottish Presbyterian minister and hymn writer Horatius Bonar and published in 1857.
Verse 1
O love of God, how strong and true!
Eternal, and yet ever new;
Uncomprehended and unbought,
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.
Verse 2
O love of God, how deep and great,
Far deeper than man's deepest hate;
Self-fed, self-kindled like the light,
Changeless, eternal, infinite.
Verse 3
We read thee best in Him who cam
To bear for us the cross of shame;
Sent by the Father from on high,
Our life to live, our death to die.
Verse 4
We read thy power to bless and save,
E'en in the darkness of the grave;
Still more in resurrection light
We read the fullness of thy might.
Verse 5
O love of God, our shield and stay
Through all the perils of our way!
Eternal love, in thee we rest,
Forever safe, forever blest.
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