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 shoreline go,
Launch out, launch out in the ocean divine,
Out where the full tide flows.
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 slime that beat over the strand, dash o’er
Them in floods evermore.
Oh, let us launch out in this ocean so broad,
Where floods of salvation ev’r flow, oh,
Let us be lost in the mercy of God, till the
Depths of His fullness we know.