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The story behind "The Love of God"Almost 300 years ago this poem was found penned on the walls of an insane assylum. It is not known the exact reason why the prisioner was incarcerated. It is also not known if the words were original or if the prisioner had heard them elsewhere. This poem later became the third stanza of Frederick M. Lehman's song "Oh, The Love of God," written in 1917. He discovered the then 200-year-old poem in a greeting card. |
1 John 4:9
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent
his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
"Think of
it, when about three-fourths of the earth is water. And look at
the hydrogen and oxygen in the air, the humidity and stuff. See,
if every moisture was ink; and think of the billions, and
trillions, and trillions of straws which would be quills. And
think of the billions of men that's been on earth, and every one
of them a scribe by trade. To dip them pens into the ocean and
try to figure out the love of God would drain the ocean dry; or
could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from
eternity to eternity."
~ William Marrion Branham
" The Absolute" 1962 (55-3)