The Love of Christ

How broad is the love of Christ?
It has gone out to the ends of the earth.
How wide it spreads!
As far as the east is from the west,
So far does he remove transgression.

How long is the love of Christ?
Stretching from eternity past to evermore.
How far it extends!
While we were still a long way off,
Compassion felt, ran, and embraced.

How high is the love of Christ?
High as heaven above earth—
How lofty he dwells!—
So great is his mercy,
Blessing us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

How deep is the love of Christ?
As deep as Himself.
How unsearchable his thoughts, how inscrutable his ways!
The secret things belong to the Lord our God,
But his revelation of himself is for us forever.

Give us strength, O Christ, to know thy love.

—5/19/25. On Eph 3:18.