456 O Love of God, how strong and true

1 O love of God, how strong and true, eternal and yet ever new; uncomprehended and unbought, beyond all knowledge and all thought.

2 O wide-embracing, wondrous Love, we read thee in the sky above; we read thee in the earth below, in seas that swell and streams that flow.

3 We read thee best in him who came to bear for us the cross of shame, sent by the Father from on high, our life to live, our death to die.

4 We read thy power to bless and save e'en in the darkness of the grave; still more in resurrection light we read the fullness of thy might.