Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: My God inspire this heart of mine
Topic: Invitation
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1
Page Number: 005, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMy God, inspire this heart of mine
To praise thy name in songs divine;
Let heav'nly love breathe thro' my day,
While speaking of the living way.
The way to death with haste I trod,
Oppress'd with sin; a heavy load:
But O, how happy was that day,
When first I found the living way.
The veil of Jesus' flesh, I see,
Was rent, and torn, and bled for me
That blood divine sheds heav'nly day,
And marks this new and living way.
O Jesus, when I view the plan,
How God descends to dwell with man.
I leap for joy, and boldly say,
I'm in this new and living way.
Whene'er thy smiling face I view,
My strength and vigor I renew;
I'm then prepar'd to shout and pray
Along the new and living way.
A sinner I confess I am,
But, O, I've found the bleeding Lamb;
He wash'd my foulest stains away,
And set me in this living way.
How boundless in the love of God,
How rich the drops of Jesus' blood;
And yet what thousands go astray,
And miss the new and living way.
Some hate this way, which life imparts;
But let us run with cheerful hearts,
For when we quit this house of clay,
We'll rise, and shout this living way.
And when we reach the heav'nly goal,
Where living streams of pleasure roll,
Our song shall be, to endless day,
"All glory to the living way."