The Love of God Is Greater Far

by Joseph Mathias   Release year: 2024 


Verse 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

Verse 1 (continued)

There's not in man so foul a stain
Can turn God's love away
Nor soul so lost but that the cost
God's love would gladly pay

Verse 2

Could we with ink the ocean fill
And were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill
And every man a scribe by trade

Verse 2 (continued)

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

Verse 3

Where should I seek a clearer sign
When I may read the love of God
In each dark streak each graven line
Inscribed in Jesus' flesh and blood

Verse 3 (continued)

My soul has heard no better word
Than what each wound there tells
I've found more hope in one red drop
Than in all comforts else

Verse 4

When once I walked the guilty path
Alive to sin to goodness dead
Deserving naught of God but wrath
He sent his only Son instead

Verse 4 (continued)

What cause had he this slave to free
By giving up his Son
God's love it was no other cause
Nor other hope I own

Verse 5

Why in despair then should I sink
My life despise ungratefully
What folly this when I but think
That Jesus died for me for me

Verse 5 (continued)

Though slanders yet my soul beset
With these let Christ contend
The wretch's plea and comfort he
The sinner's surest friend


 

First half of Verse 1 by Frederich Lehman (1868-1953), public domain; Verse 2 Anonymous; remaining lyrics and music by Joseph Mathias.

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