The Mercy of God Is an Ocean Divine

The mer­cy of God

Is an ocean di­vine

A bound­less and fa­thom­less flood.

Launch out in the deep

Cut away the shore line

And be lost in the full­ness of God.

Launch out

in­to the deep.

Oh let the shore line go.

Launch out

launch out in the ocean di­vine

Out where the full tides flow.

But ma­ny

alas!

Only stand on the shore

And gaze on the ocean so wide.

They nev­er have ven­tured

Its depths to ex­plore

Or to launch on the fa­thom­less tide.

And oth­ers just ven­ture

Away from the land

And ling­er so near to the shore

That the surf and the slime

That beat ov­er the strand

Dash o’er them in floods ev­er­more.

Oh

let us launch out

On this ocean so broad

Where floods of sal­va­tion o’er­flow.

Oh

let us be lost

In the mer­cy of God

Till the depths of His full­ness we know.