{"id":5852,"date":"2026-08-26T19:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:48:46","slug":"the-love-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5852","title":{"rendered":"The Love of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>The love of God is greater far<br>than tongue or pen can ever tell;<br>it goes beyond the highest star,<br>and reaches to the lowest hell;<br>the guilty pair, bowed down with care,<br>God gave His Son to win;<br>His erring child He reconciled,<br>and pardoned from his sin.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Refrain:<\/strong><em><strong><br>O love of God, how rich and pure!<br>How measureless and strong!<br>It shall forevermore endure:<br>the saints\u2019 and angels\u2019 song!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>When years of time shall pass away<br>and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,<br>when men who here refuse to pray,<br>on rocks and hills and mountains call,<br>God\u2019s love so pure shall still endure,<br>all measureless and strong;<br>redeeming grace to Adam&#8217;s race\u2014<br>the saints\u2019 and angels\u2019 song<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>. <\/em>[Refrain]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Could we with ink the ocean fill<br>and were the skies of parchment made,<br>were every stalk on earth a quill<br>and every man a scribe by trade,<br>to write the love of God above<br>would drain the ocean dry;<br>nor could the scroll contain the whole,<br>tho&#8217; stretched from sky to sky. <\/strong><\/em><strong>[Refrain]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Author: Frederick M. Lehman (1917)<\/strong>, <strong>Copyright Status &#8211; Public Domain<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The love of God is greater farthan 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. Refrain:O love of God, how rich and pure!How measureless and strong!It shall forevermore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Love of God<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}