The Hymn of the Month

How Wide the Love of Christ

LSB, 535

...that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

     -Ephesians 3:17b-19

How wide the love of Christ!

I knows not class or race

But holds our one humanity

Within its broad embrace.

How long the love of Christ!

Its patience will not cease

Until this broken world is bound

In everlasting peace.

How high the love of Christ!

Beyond all thought it soars,

And yet upon our passing lives

Unmeasured mercy pours.

How deep the love of Christ!

Descending to a cross!

He bears within His wounded hands

All human pain and loss.

All praise to You, O Christ,

For love whose depth and height,

Whose length and breadth fill time and space

With endless life and light!