Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: O Lord my best desires fulfill
Topic: Supplication
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 51
Page Number: 057, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO Lord, my best desires fulfil,
And help me to resign
Life, health and comfort to thy will,
And make thy pleasure mine.
Why should I shrink at thy command,
Whose love forbids my fears?
Or gremble at the gracious hand
That wipes away my tears?
No, let me rather freely yield
What most I prize to thee,
Who never has a good withheld,
Nor wilt withhold from me.
Wisdom and mercy guide my way,
Shall I resist them both?
A poor blind creature of a day,
And crush'd before the moth.
But ah! My inward spirit cries,
Still bind me to thy sway,
Else the next cloud that veils my skies,
Drives all these thoughts away.