Listen to this beautiful performance of the song ‘The Love of God’ from the group Hymns of Grace. The vocalists and musicians sound incredible together as they sing about the greatness of God’s love in simple yet powerful words. This hymn was written by Frederick M. Lehman in 1917, and it is still very loved to this day.
‘The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell;
it goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell;
the guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled, and pardoned from his sin.’
The group Hymns of Grace did a wonderful job with this performance of ‘The Love of God,’ and they even talked about the meaning behind the song in the caption of their video.
“With imagery that lifts our eyes from earth to eternity, it reminds us that even if the skies were parchment, the oceans ink, and every man a scribe, the love of God could never be fully written,” the group writes in the caption of the video. “His love is beyond measure, unchanging, and everlasting.”
This hymn highlights God's unchanging nature. When Frederick M. Lehman found himself in unfortunate circumstances, his faith never wavered, and he began to write a love song to the Lord. After composing two stanzas, he was at a loss for words and found a poem that would fit perfectly for his third stanza to finish his composition.
The note below that poem read: “These words were found written on a cell wall in a prison some 200 years ago. It is not known why the prisoner was incarcerated; neither is it known if the words were original or if he had heard them somewhere and had decided to put them in a place where he could be reminded of the greatness of God’s love - whatever the circumstances, he wrote them on the wall of his prison cell. In due time, he died and the men who had the job of repainting his cell were impressed by the words. Before their paint brushes had obliterated them, one of the men jotted them down and thus they were preserved.”
Historians later found that the words came from a Hebrew poem written around the year 1,000 as a prelude to The Ten Commandments – a reminder that all of Scripture tells us the story of God’s love.
We hope that you enjoyed listening to this performance of ‘The Love of God’ today!