The “Five Minute Friday” prompt this week is “Deep.”

I’ve given it a fair bit of thought, and were I to write for five minutes or twenty, I cannot do any better than the first thing that came to mind. They are someone else’s words, but they qualify as deep…

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 my glorious rest above.

-S. Trevor Francis, 1875     (Vocals + Lyrics)

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
and were the skies of parchment made;
were every stalk on earth a quill,
and everyone a scribe by trade;
to write the love of God above
would drain the ocean dry;
nor could the scroll contain the whole,
though stretched from sky to sky.

-Frederick M. Lehman, 1917    (Vocals + Lyrics)

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were a present far too small.
Love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.

-Isaac Watts, 1707   (Signed)   (Vocals)

Let the vast unmeasured ocean of God’s love wash over you this week, and you’ll find yourself loving Him right back.

Lyrics, info, and image retrieved from www.Hymnary.com.

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!