May 9, 2009

  • "Thy only will I fain would seek" (Whitefield/Wesley)

    Lord, teach me in all things simply to comply with Thy will, without presuming to say, even in my heart, "What doest Thou?"

    My bondage of corruption break,
    For this my spirit groans;
    Thy only will I fain would seek,
    O save me from my own!


    (George Whitefield, "George Whitefield's Journals," Monday, August 13, 1739)

    Enslaved to Sense, to Pleasure Prone
    (Charles Wesley, 1739)

    Enslaved to sense, to pleasure prone,
    Fond of created good,
    Father, our helplessness we own,
    And trembling taste our food.

    Trembling we taste; for, ah! no more
    To Thee the creatures lead;
    Changed, they exert a baneful power,
    And poison while they feed.

    Cursed for the sake of wretched man,
    They now engross him whole;
    With pleasing force on earth detain,
    And sensualize his soul.

    Groveling on earth we still must lie,
    Till Christ the curse repeal;
    Till Christ, descending from on high,
    Infected nature heal.

    Come then, our heavenly Adam, come,
    Thy healing influence give,
    Hallow our food, reverse our doom,
    And bid us eat and live!

    The bondage of corruption break,
    For this our spirits groan;
    Thy only will we fain would seek,
    O save us from our own!

    Turn the full stream of nature’s tide;
    Let all our actions tend
    To Thee their source; Thy love the guide,
    Thy glory be the end.

    Earth then a scale to Heaven shall be,
    Sense shall point out the road,
    The creatures all shall lead to Thee,
    And all we taste be God.


    After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.


Comments (1)

  • Amen! Oh, dear Lord Jesus, too often I am prone to seek after other things that would bring me pleasure when I should be seeking You and finding my pleasure in You. The Psalmist said that our delight should be in You. Lord, teach me to delight in You and enjoy coming into Your presence. Let me sit down under Your shadow, and let Your fruit be sweet to my taste. As I come to sit with You, let everything else dim until I look full in Your glorious face. Let me look and fix my gaze on You only. I trust that as I do this, You will reveal Your will for my life in Your word. Thank you for dying for me that I might live, now and in eternity.

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I am burdened to pray to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the reformation and reviving of Christ's church.

The phrase tent of meeting comes from Exodus 33:7: Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

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