An eye single the glory of God.
BEHOLD! the servant of the Lord,
I wait thy guiding hand to feel;
To hear and keep thy every word,—
To prove and do thy perfect will:
Joyful from my own works to cease,
Glad to fulfil all righteousness.
2 And if thy grace vouchsafe to use,
The meanest of thy creatures, me,
The deed, the time, the manner choose;
Let all my fruit be found of thee :
Let all my works in thee be wrought,—
By thee to full perfection brought.
3 My every weak, though good design,
O’errule or change, as seems thee meet;
Jesus, let all my work be thine!
Thy work, O Lord, is all complete,
And pleasing in thy Father’s sight;
Thou only hast done all things right.
4 Here, then, to thee thine own I leave;
Mould as thou wilt thy passive clay;
But let me all thy stamp receive,-
But let me all thy words obey:
Serve with a single heart and eye,
And to thy glory live and die.
Charles Wesley
Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)
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