INFINITE LOVE

1.Can word describe or tongue recite

The measure of God’s love?

What passion did this dust excite

To bring Him from above?

Infinite God this planet trod,

Bounded by feeble human frame;

A sacrifice of immense price 

The Son of God became.


2.The world He made, to world He came,

The world, it knew Him not;

Unto His own with love He came;

His own received Him not.

Yet love excelled, advanced unquelled,

Breaking through forts of war and hate;

O sovereign love from heav’n above,

Who can Thy depths relate!


3.He had to drink a bitter cup,

His enemies to save;

And on a cross be lifted up,

And fill a borrowed grave.

But could the throes of fatal woes

Keep God and sinner man apart,

As sorrow great and love in spate

Met in that lonely heart?


4.Creator God, by creature tried

And sentenced to the tree!

The sinless God was crucified

By sinner’s cold decree!

The scorn He faced, the cross embraced;

Love bade Him pay that awful price.

This sovereign Love from heav’n above

Leaned back and closed His eyes.


O Love divine, wilt Thou be mine?

How hast Thou captivated me!

Bearing my cross, through gain and loss,

Jesus, I’ll follow Thee.