O God of Love

O God of love

in Your everlasting love

Yearning earnestly for Your elect

As for Israel so long ago

That they’d turn from their idols to gain

Your incarnate Christ as righteousness.

Christ came as man

as Your righteousness to us

That in Your divine economy

He Your people’s everything might be

As our universality and our centrality

experienced.

Wicked by birth

deceitful corrupt in heart

Our one hope: redemption from our fall

Wickedness and sin

but that’s not all—

The redemption of Christ and salvation by life

divine dispensed to us.

Saved by Your life and Your life’s capacity

We’re renewed that You could be our God

And that we Your people all could be

That we’d share the enjoyment of all of the riches of

the Trinity.

Israel will be restored in the coming age;

With Your overcomers they’ll enjoy

All Your riches which will consummate

In new earth and new heav’n for eternity in the New

Jerusalem.