'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.
 
– theologian & preacher John Newton

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