This morning while studying the incomprehensibility of God I found this great hymn by Augustus Toplady. Based on the last stanza, it could be called “Love Incomprehensible.” Here it is – it’s great devotional reading for the day!
1 From thy supreme tribunal, Lord,
Where justice sits severe,
I to thy mercy seat appeal,
And beg forgiveness there.2 Tho’ I have sinn’d before the throne,
My advocate I see:
Jesus, be thou my Judge, and let
My sentence come from thee.3 Lo, weary to thy cross I fly,
There let me shelter find:
Lord, when thou call’st thy ransom’d home,
O leave me not behind!4 I joyfully embrace thy love
To fallen man reveal’d;
My hope of glory, dearest Lord,
On thee alone I build.5 The law was satisfy’d by him
Who flesh for me was made:
Its penalty he underwent,
Its precepts he obey’d.6 Desert and all self-righteousness
I utterly forego;
My robe of everlasting bliss,
My wedding garment thou!7 The spotless Saviour liv’d for me,
And dy’d upon the Mount:
Th’ obedience of his life and death
Is plac’d to my account.8 Canst thou forget that awful hour,
That sad, tremendous scene,
When thy dear blood on Calvary
Flow’d out at ev’ry vein?9 No, Saviour, no; thy wounds are fresh,
Ev’n now they intercede;
Still, in effect, for guilty man
Incessantly they bleed.10 Thine ears of mercy still attend
A contrite sinner’s cries,
A broken heart, that groans for God,
Thou never wilt despise.11 O love incomprehensible,
That made thee bleed for me!
The Judge of all hath suffer’d death
To set his prisoner free!
Augustus Toplady, Poem XXXV, Refuge in the righteousness of Christ; Toplady’s Works, volume 6.
Shane Lems
Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Hammond, WI, 54015
