This is a powerful, moving hymn about the depth and beauty of God’s great love. A very emotional and personal text, this song can help us comprehend “what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:18-19) In verse 1, the vastness, fullness, and envelopment of God’s love is explored, while in verse 2 God’s love is tied specifically to the work of Jesus on our behalf and the praise that work brings forth from believers. In conclusion, we sing the most amazing thought, that God’s love is a “heaven of heavens” to me, as if to say that God’s love is so far beyond any other love that it is a heaven’s-measure above all.
Lyrics
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean
In its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me,
Is the current of Your love
Leading onward, leading homeward
To Your glorious rest above!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Spread His praise from shore to shore,
How His love is never-ending,
And it changes nevermore;
How He watches o'er His loved ones,
Died to call them all His own;
How for them He's interceding,
Watching o'er them from the throne.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Love of ev'ry love the best:
'Tis an ocean vast of blessing,
'Tis a haven sweet of rest.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
'Tis a heav'n of heav'ns to me;
And it lifts me up to glory,
With You evermore to be.
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