| Description: | Today is my 14th entry in the Lenten Hymn-of-the-Day project.
It serves a "double purpose", since today the Church commemorates John and Charles Wesley. So, we have a lovely, Lenten hymn, with the text being by Charles Wesley (1707-1788).
The text is "typical" of him, in that it combines passion with humility, making for a sincere and devotional prayer.
The music is by Thomas Wright (1763-1829).
One FULL VERSE of introduction.
O for a heart to praise my God,
A heart from sin set free;
A heart that always feels thy blood
So freely spilt for me.
A heart resigned, submissive, meek,
My dear Redeemer's throne;
Where only Christ is hear to speak,
Where Jesus reigns alone:
A humble, lowly, contrite heart,
Believing, true, and clean,
Which neither life nor death can part
From Him that dwells within.
A heart in every thought renewed,
And full of love divine;
Perfect and right and pure and good,
A copy, Lord, of thine.
My heart, thou know'st, can never rest
Till thou create my peace;
Till of mine Eden repossest,
From self, and sin, I cease.
Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart,
Come quickly from above.
Write thy new name upon my heart,
Thy new best name of love. |
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