Here is Love

Here is love, vast as the ocean,
Lovingkindness as the flood,
When the Prince of Life, our Ransom,
Shed for us His precious blood.
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten,
Throughout Heav’n’s eternal days.


On the mount of crucifixion,
Fountains opened deep and wide;
Through the floodgates of God’s mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers,
Poured incessant from above,
And Heav’n’s peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love.


Let me all Thy love accepting,
Love Thee, ever all my days;
Let me seek Thy kingdom only
And my life be to Thy praise;
Thou alone shalt be my glory,
Nothing in the world I see.

Thou hast cleansed and sanctified me,
Thou Thyself hast set me free.


In Thy truth Thou dost direct me
By Thy Spirit through Thy Word;
And Thy grace my need is meeting,
As I trust in Thee, my Lord.
Of Thy fullness Thou art pouring
Thy great love and power on me,
Without measure, full and boundless,
Drawing out my heart to Thee.

Wm Rees/Wm Williams 

From the Welsh .

I first sang this hymn at a UCCF staff conference in the mid 1990's.  The words came out of the Welsh revival 105 years ago.  The words remind us to look to Christ as the definition of God's love, we do not understand God's love and so look to Christ, we do not feel God's love and then see it in Jesus - Jesus IS God's love demonstrated, on the cross, in the grave, now risen and ruling as Lord.

I love the image of God's Love and Justice 'kissing', reconciled and satisfied, at the cross of Jesus.

The final two verses seem to be a later addition - reflecting on the effect of knowing God in Christ in the Christian's heart: pleading for grace and transforming power in living by the Spirit's guide under Scripture's authority.

That we might experience the awakening that God so graciously poured out in response to His work in the hearts of the people of Wales!  That we might be the sort of people who would ask God to bend us to His will! That we might look to the love of God and pursue Him with all the strength He gives us!

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-3