{"id":8689,"date":"2025-12-14T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/hymn-79-o-love-of-god-how-strong-and-true-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:15:35","slug":"hymn-79-o-love-of-god-how-strong-and-true-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal\/hymn-79-o-love-of-god-how-strong-and-true-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 79 O LOVE OF GOD, HOW STRONG AND TRUE! Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal<\/h2>\n<h2>Hymn 79 O LOVE OF GOD, HOW STRONG AND TRUE! Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nO love of God, how strong and true!<br \/>\nEternal, and yet ever new;<br \/>\nUncomprehended and unbought,<br \/>\nBeyond all knowledge and all thought.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nO love of God, how deep and great,<br \/>\nFar deeper than man&#8217;s deepest hate;<br \/>\nSelffed, selfkindled like the light,<br \/>\nChangeless, eternal, infinite.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nWe read thee best in Him who cam<br \/>\nTo bear for us the cross of shame;<br \/>\nSent by the Father from on high,<br \/>\nOur life to live, our death to die.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nWe read thy power to bless and save,<br \/>\nE&#8217;en in the darkness of the grave;<br \/>\nStill more in resurrection light<br \/>\nWe read the fullness of thy might.<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\nO love of God, our shield and stay<br \/>\nThrough all the perils of our way!<br \/>\nEternal love, in thee we rest,<br \/>\nForever safe, forever blest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal Hymn 79 O LOVE OF GOD, HOW STRONG AND TRUE! Lyrics &nbsp; 1 O love of God, how strong and true! Eternal, and yet ever new; Uncomprehended and unbought, Beyond all knowledge and all thought. 2 O love of God, how deep and great, Far deeper than man&#8217;s deepest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}