There´s a wideness in God´s mercy

 

1. There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea; there’s a kindness in His justice, which is more than liberty. There is no place where earth’s sorrows are more felt than up in Heaven; there is no place where earth’s failings have such kindly judgment given. 

2. There is welcome for the sinner, and more graces for the good; there is mercy with the Savior; there is healing in His blood. There is grace enough for thousands of new worlds as great as this; there is room for fresh creations in that upper home of bliss. 

3. For the love of God is broader than the measure of our mind; and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind. There is plentiful redemption in the blood that has been shed; there is joy for all the members in the sorrows of the Head. 

4. ’Tis not all we owe to Jesus; it is something more than all; greater good because of evil, larger mercy through the fall. If our love were but more simple, we should take Him at His word; and our lives would be all sunshine in the sweetness of our Lord. 

5. Souls of men! why will ye scatter like a crowd of frightened sheep? Foolish hearts! why will ye wander from a love so true and deep? It is God: His love looks mighty, but is mightier than it seems; ’tis our Father: and His fondness goes far out beyond our dreams. 

6. But we make His love too narrow by false limits of our own; and we magnify His strictness with a zeal He will not own. Was there ever kinder shepherd half so gentle, half so sweet, as the Savior who would have us come and gather at His feet?