Hymns of Love and Shelter

Gracie’s hymns this week are:

O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
O Safe to the Rock that is Higher than I

May you rest in the truth of these hymns this week.

LYRICS, via Hymnary.org

O, THE DEEP DEEP LOVE OF JESUS, by S. Trevor Francis
1 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free,
rolling as a mighty ocean
in its fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me,
is the current of thy love;
leading onward, leading homeward,
to thy glorious rest above.
2 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Spread his praise from shore to shore;
how he loveth, ever loveth,
changeth never, nevermore;
how he watches o’er his loved ones,
died to call them all his own;
how for them he intercedeth,
watcheth o’er them from the throne.
3 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Love of ev’ry love the best:
’tis an ocean vast of blessing,
’tis a haven sweet of rest.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
‘Tis a heav’n of heav’ns to me;
and it lifts me up to glory,
for it lifts me up to thee.

ROCK OF AGES, CLEFT FOR ME, by Augustus Toplady
1 Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 
let me hide myself in thee; 
let the water and the blood, 
from thy wounded side which flowed, 
be of sin the double cure; 
save from wrath and make me pure. 
2 Not the labors of my hands 
can fulfill thy law’s demands; 
could my zeal no respite know, 
could my tears forever flow, 
all for sin could not atone; 
thou must save, and thou alone. 
3 Nothing in my hand I bring, 
simply to the cross I cling; 
naked, come to thee for dress; 
helpless, look to thee for grace; 
foul, I to the fountain fly; 
wash me, Savior, or I die. 
4 While I draw this fleeting breath, 
when mine eyes shall close in death, 
when I soar to worlds unknown, 
see thee on thy judgment throne, 
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 
let me hide myself in thee. 

O SAFE TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I, by W.O. Cushing

1 O safe to the Rock that is higher than I,
My soul in its conflicts and sorrows would fly. 
So sinful, so weary, Thine, Thine would I be; 
Thou blest Rock of Ages, I’m hiding in Thee. 
Chorus: 
Hiding in Thee, Hiding in Thee,
Thou blest Rock of Ages, I’m hiding in Thee.
2 In the calm of the noontide, in sorrow’s lone hour, 
In times when temptation casts o’er me its power, 
In the tempests of life, on its wide, heaving sea, 
Thou blest Rock of Ages, I’m hiding in Thee. [Chorus]
3 How oft in the conflict, when pressed by the foe, 
I have fled to my Refuge and breathed out my woe. 
How often when trials like sea billows roll  
Have I hidden in Thee, O Thou Rock of my soul. [Chorus]