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80- O World of God

God the Father: Love of God

1

  • O world of God, so vast and strange,
  • Profound and wonderful and fair,
  • Beyond the utmost reach of thought,
  • But not beyond a Father's care!
  • We are not strangers on this earth
  • Whirling amid the suns of space;
  • We are God's children, this our home,
  • With those of every clime and race.

2

  • O world of man where life is lived,
  • So strangely mingling joy and pain,
  • So full of evil and of good,
  • So needful that the good shall reign!
  • It is this world that God has loved,
  • And goodness was its Maker's plan,
  • The promise of God's triumph is
  • His coming in a Son of Man.

3

  • O world of time's far-stretching years!
  • There was a day when time stood still,
  • A central moment when there rose
  • A cross upon a cruel hill;
  • In pain and death love's power was seen,
  • The mystery of time revealed,
  • The wisdom of the ways of God,
  • The grace through which man's hurt is healed.