ohnpcoach Personal Hymns & Poetry

My God, how wonderful you are

Another old hymn, updated for personal worship

Original words by Frederick William Faber (1814-63)

My God, how wonderful You are,
Your majesty how bright,
How beautiful Your mercy-seat,
Intense forgiving light!
For limitless eternal years,
O everlasting Lord,
Worshiping spirits day and night
Continually adore!
Oh, how I fear You, living God,
With deepest, reverent fears,
And worship You with trembling hope
And true repentant tears!

Yet I may love You too, Oh Lord,
Almighty as You are,
For You have stooped to ask of me,
The love of my poor heart.

No earthly father loves like You;
No parent, even mild,
Loves patiently as You have done
For me, Your sinful child.

How wonderful, how beautiful,
The sight of You must be,
Your endless wisdom, boundless power,
And awesome purity!
ohnpcoach Personal Hymns & Poetry

Prayer for the start of a new week

O Master, let me walk with You
In lowly paths of service true.
Take on my burden, help me bear
The strain of toil, the fret of care.

Help me the slow of heart to move
By some clear, winning word of love.
Teach me the wayward feet to stay,
And guide them in the homeward way.

Teach me Your patience, waiting still,
And with Your Holy Spirit fill,
Through work that keeps faith sweet and strong,
In trust that triumphs over wrong.

In hope that sends a shining ray
Far down the future's broadening way.
In peace that only You can give,
With You, O Master, let me live. 


Updated from the hymn O Master, let me walk with Thee, 
original words by Washington Gladden, 1879, Public Domain