THE HEART OF GOD

D. C. Brown

Thinking of God and looking on His ways,

As shown to me by Jesus, His own Son,

My soul has been not only moved to praise

That I should know the ways of such a One,

But moved to love, considering the heart

(Moved by desire that when these ways were done

I as myself a son should form a part

In His eternal presence, being too

Integral in Christ’s glorious counterpart—

The splendid bride joined to the Bridegroom who

Gave all for her) which from profound affection

Conceived and used these ways to carry through

Those whom He loved into complete perfection,

Washed from their sins, cleared from the power of sin, Knowing His love in Christ, the Resurrection,

And in the arms of God who drew them in

To His own countenance. No other mind

Could, pulsing to its grandest heights, begin

To think of such a plan as this, designed

By such a God; no other heart required

Such a conception for its unconfined

Expanse of love; no other love inspired

Such love as that by which God’s sons are fired.

Edinburgh