God is so great and so incredible that His love is overwhelming. Love Divine, All Loves Excelling reminds us that His care for us is beyond anything we could expect or hope for, and His gift of salvation through Jesus Christ is beyond comprehensibility.
Love Divine, all loves excelling / Joy of heaven to earth come down
Fix in us thy humble dwelling / All thy faithful mercies crown
Jesus, thou art all compassion / Pure unbounded love thou art
Visit us with thy salvation / Enter every trembling heart.
Come, Almighty to deliver, / Let us all thy life receive;
Suddenly return and never, / Never more thy temples leave.
>Thee we would be always blessing, / Serve thee as thy hosts above,
Pray and praise thee without ceasing, / Glory in thy perfect love.
Finish, then, thy new creation; / Pure and spotless let us be.
>Let us see thy great salvation / Perfectly restored in thee;
Changed from glory into glory, / Till in heaven we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before thee, / Lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Handbells (three or five octaves), plus handchimes (two octaves)
Level 2+
Hymn tune: BLAENWERN
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