The Awakened Sinner
From Valley of Vision
O my forgetful soul,
Awake from your wandering dream;turn from chasing vanities,
look inward, forward, upward,
view yourself,
reflect upon yourself,
who and what you are, why here,
what you must soon be.
You are a creature of God,
formed and furnished by him,
lodged in a body like a shepherd in his tent;
Do you not desire to know God’s ways?
O God,
You injured, neglected, provoked Benefactorwhen I think upon your greatness and your goodness
I am ashamed at my insensibility,
I blush to lift up my face,
for I have foolishly erred.
Shall I go on neglecting you,
when every one of your rational creatures
should love you,
and take every care to please you?
I confess that you have not been in all my thoughts,
that the knowledge of yourself as the end of
my being has been strangely overlooked,
that I have never seriously considered
my heart-need.
But although my mind is perplexed and divided,
my nature perverse,
yet my secret dispositions still desire you.
Let me not delay to come to you;
Break the fatal enchantment that binds
my evil affections,
and bring me to a happy mind that rests in you,
for you have made me and canst not forget me.
Let your Spirit teach me the vital lessons of Christ,
for I am slow to learn;
And you hear my broken cries
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