Monday, November 22, 2010

Hymn for the Week: For Believers Suffering

Father, in the name I pray
Of thy incarnate Love;
Humbly ask, that as my day (Deut. 33:25)
My suffering strength may prove;
When my sorrows most increase, (John 16:20)
Let thy strongest joys be given;
Jesu, come with my distress,
And agony is heaven.

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
For good remember me! (Neh. 13:31)
Me, whom thou hast caused to trust
For more than life on thee; (Ps. 63:3)
With me in the fire remain (Dan. 3:25;)
Till like burnished gold I shine, (Zech. 13:9)
Meet, through consecrated pain, (Job 23:10)
To see the face divine. (Rev. 22:4)