'Tis A Point I Long To Know...
1. ’Tis a point I long to know,
Oft it causes anxious thought;
Do I love the Lord, or no?
Am I His, or am I not?
2. If I am, why am I thus?
Why this dull and lifeless frame?
Hardly, sure, can they be worse,
Who have never heard His name!
3. Could my heart so hard remain,
Prayer a task and burden prove;
Every trifle give me pain,
If I knew a Savior’s love?
4. When I turn my eyes within,
All is dark, and vain, and wild;
Filled with unbelief and sin,
Can I deem myself a child?
5. If I pray, or hear, or read,
Sin is mixed with all I do;
You that love the Lord indeed,
Tell me, Is it so with you?
6. Yet I mourn my stubborn will,
Find my sin, a grief, and thrall;
Should I grieve for what I feel,
If I did not love at all?
7. Could I joy His saints to meet,
Choose the ways I once abhorred,
Find, at times, the promise sweet,
If I did not love the Lord?
8. Lord decide the doubtful case!
Thou Who art Thy people’s sun;
Shine upon Thy work of grace,
If it be indeed begun.
9. Let me love Thee more and more,
If I love at all, I pray;
If I have not loved before,
Help me to begin today.
Oft it causes anxious thought;
Do I love the Lord, or no?
Am I His, or am I not?
2. If I am, why am I thus?
Why this dull and lifeless frame?
Hardly, sure, can they be worse,
Who have never heard His name!
3. Could my heart so hard remain,
Prayer a task and burden prove;
Every trifle give me pain,
If I knew a Savior’s love?
4. When I turn my eyes within,
All is dark, and vain, and wild;
Filled with unbelief and sin,
Can I deem myself a child?
5. If I pray, or hear, or read,
Sin is mixed with all I do;
You that love the Lord indeed,
Tell me, Is it so with you?
6. Yet I mourn my stubborn will,
Find my sin, a grief, and thrall;
Should I grieve for what I feel,
If I did not love at all?
7. Could I joy His saints to meet,
Choose the ways I once abhorred,
Find, at times, the promise sweet,
If I did not love the Lord?
8. Lord decide the doubtful case!
Thou Who art Thy people’s sun;
Shine upon Thy work of grace,
If it be indeed begun.
9. Let me love Thee more and more,
If I love at all, I pray;
If I have not loved before,
Help me to begin today.
– theologian & preacher John Newton
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