Poured Out

In chapter five of Romans, the Apostle Paul tells us that 'the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us'.

That phrase 'poured out' means overflowing, super abundance, gushing out, profusion, lavish outpouring. John MacArthur makes the comment that "our Heavenly Father does not proffer his love in measured drops, but in immeasurable torrents". This gives us unwavering assurance and comfort that the God who saves us is the God who keeps us.

The hymn, 'The Love of God' describes this pouring out of God's love very well. Written in 1917 by Frederick M. Lehman, the lyrics follow:

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.

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O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints’ and angels’ song.

When years of time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men, who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
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Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
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