The Love of God Shed Abroad in the Heart
Isaac Watts (1709) • English
Primary Scripture: Psalm 34:8-9
Verse 1
Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell by faith and love in every breast; then shall we know and taste and feel the joys that cannot be expressed.
Verse 2
Come, fill our hearts with inward strength, make our enlargèd souls possess and learn the height and breadth and length of thine immeasurable grace.
Verse 3
Now to the God whose power can do more than our thoughts or wishes know, be everlasting honours done by all the church, through Christ his Son.
Scripture References
Reference 1
- psalms 34:8-9
Reference 2
- psalms 63
Reference 3
- romans 5:1-5
Reference 4
- galatians 5:6
Reference 5
- ephesians 1:23
Reference 6
- ephesians 3
Reference 7
- 1-peter 1:8