109. Oh, the Love of God Is Boundless

8.7.8.7.D.
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Oh, the love of God is boundless,
 
Perfect, causeless, full and free!
 
Doubts have vanished, fears are groundless,
 
Now I know that love to me.
 
Love, the source of all my blessing;
 
Love, that set itself on me;
 
Love, that gave the spotless Victim;
 
Love told out at Calvary.
2
Oh, the cross of Christ is wondrous!
 
There I learn God’s heart to me;
 
Midst the silent, deepening darkness,
 
"God is light" I also see.
 
Holy claims of justice finding
 
Full expression in that scene;
 
Light and love alike are telling
 
What yon woe and sufferings mean.
3
Oh, the sight in heaven is glorious!
 
Man in righteousness is there;
 
Once the Victim, now victorious,
 
Jesus lives in glory fair.
 
Him, who met the claims of glory,
 
And the need of ruined man,
 
On the cross — oh, wondrous story!
 
God has set at His right hand.
4
Oh, what rest of soul in viewing
 
Jesus on the Father’s throne!
 
Yea, what peace forever flowing
 
From God’s rest in His own Son!
 
Gazing upward into heaven,
 
Reading glory in His face,
 
Knowing that ’tis He, once given
 
On the cross to take my place.
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