I Hear the Words of Love
Colossians 1:20
ST. MICHAEL  |  Same-Tune Hymns  |  Bible Passage
Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889
Musician: French-Genevan Psalter, 1551
Adapted by William Crotch, 1775-1847

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I hear the words of love,
I gaze upon the blood,
I see the mighty sacrifice,
And I have peace with God.

'Tis everlasting peace,
Sure as Jehovah's name;
'Tis stable as His steadfast throne,
Forevermore the same.

The clouds may come and go,
And storms may sweep my sky—
This blood-sealed friendship changes not:
The cross is ever nigh.

My love is ofttimes low,
My joy still ebbs and flows;
But peace with Him remains the same—
No change Jehovah knows.

I change, He changes not,
The Christ can never die;
His love, not mine, the resting-place,
His truth, not mine, the tie.


OTHER HYMNS with the SAME TUNE:

•   Behold the Throne of Grace!  John Newton, 1725-1807


BIBLE PASSAGE:

20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.