Breathing after comfort and deliverance.

Why should we fix our eyesOn these low grounds where sorrows grow,And every pleasure dies ?While time his sharpest teeth preparesOur comforts to devour,There is a land above the stars,And joys above his power.Nature shall be dissolved and die,The sun must end his race,The earth and sea for ever flyBefore my Savior’s face.When will that…

In thine own ways, O God of love,We wait the visits of thy grace,Our soul’s desire is to thy name,And the remembrance of thy face.My thoughts are searching, Lord, for thee‘Mongst the black shades of lonesome night;My earnest cries salute the skiesBefore the dawn restore the light.Look, how rebellious men derideThe tender patience of my…

And make their empty boastOf inward joys, and sins forgiv’n,While they are slaves to lust!Vain are our fancies, airy flights,If faith be cold and dead;None but a living power unitesTo Christ the living head.‘Tis faith that changes all the heart;‘Tis faith that works by love;That bids all sinful joys depart,And lifts the thoughts above.‘Tis faith…

And born unholy and unclean;Sprung from the man whose guilty fallCorrupts the race, and taints us all.Soon as we draw our infant breath,The seeds of sin grow up for death;Thy law demands a perfect heart,But we’re defiled in every part.[Great God, create my heart anew,And form my spirit pure and true;O make me wise betimes…

Now to the Lord, that makes us knowThe wonders of his dying love,Be humble honors paid below,And strains of nobler praise above.‘Twas he that cleansed our foulest sins,And washed us in his richest blood;‘Tis he that makes us priests and kings,And brings us rebels near to God.To Jesus, our atoning Priest,To Jesus, our superior King,Be…

Do we not know that solemn word,That we are buried with the Lord,Baptized into his death, and thenPut off the body of our sin?Our souls receive diviner breath,Raised from corruption, guilt, and death;So from the grave did Christ arise,And lives to God above the skies.No more let sin or Satan reignOver our mortal flesh again;The…