{"id":1536,"date":"2019-05-28T06:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2019-05-27T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:17:37","slug":"the-love-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-love-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFor God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life\u201d (John 3:16).<\/p>\n

The love of God is greater far
\nThan tongue or pen can ever tell;
\nIt goes beyond the highest star,
\nAnd reaches to the lowest hell.
\nThe guilty pair, bowed down with care,
\nGod gave His Son to win.
\nHis erring child He reconciled,
\nand pardoned from his sin.<\/p>\n

Oh love of God, how rich and pure;
\nHow measureless and strong!
\nIt shall forevermore endure,
\nThe saints’ and angels’ song.<\/p>\n

When years of time shall pass away,
\nAnd earthly thrones and kingdoms fall;
\nWhen men who here refuse to pray,
\nOn rocks and hills and mountains call;
\nGod’s love, so sure, will still endure,
\nAll measureless and strong,
\nRedeeming grace to Adam’s race,
\nThe saints’ and angels’ song.<\/p>\n

Oh love of God, how rich and pure;
\nHow measureless and strong!
\nIt shall forevermore endure,
\nThe saints’ and angels’ song.<\/p>\n

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
\nAnd were the skies of parchment made;
\nWere every stalk on earth a quill,
\nAnd everyone a scribe by trade;
\nTo write the love of God above
\nWould drain the ocean dry;
\nNor could the scroll contain the whole,
\nThough stretched from sky to sky.<\/p>\n

Oh love of God, how rich and pure;
\nHow measureless and strong!
\nIt shall forevermore endure,
\nThe saints’ and angels’ song.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Love of God\u201d
\nWords by Frederick M. Lehman, 1917
\nand Meir ben Isaac Nehoral, c. 1050
\nTune: LOVE OF GOD (8.8.8.8.8.6.8.6. with refrain)
\nMusic by Frederick M. Lehman, 1917
\nWords and Music \u00a9Public Domain<\/p>\n

Download an arrangement<\/a>\u00a0(PDF) of the hymn tune LOVE OF GOD for classical guitar.<\/p>\n

Download sheet music<\/a> for this hymn including a hymn score with guitar chords from Grace Music. \u201cThe Love of God\u201d (#247 is included in the hymnal Sing the Wonders\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(2018) published by Grace Music.<\/p>\n

More Hymns from History<\/a><\/p>\n

More hymns arranged for Classical Guitar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFor God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life\u201d (John 3:16). 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[50,76,75,98,143],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymn","category-music-for-worship","tag-church-music","tag-classical-guitar","tag-guitar","tag-hymn","tag-love-of-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lLgO-oM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}