NOT luck though drifting to and fro Though hopes elate, or fears appall, - "LORD, SAVE ME." 66 "A RUIN'D sinner, lost, undone, Lord Jesu, hear my cry: The brand of guilt is on my soul; Lord, save me, or I die." "I will, thou wreck'd and ruin'd one: before thee, lo, I stand; Upon my bosom throw thyself, and grasp my pierced hand. I will not spurn thee from my side for all thy rags and chains, I love thee; come to me, and wash thy dark and crim son stains." "Ten thousand talents, Lord, I owe, nothing have I to pay; I dare not come, whose nakedness would shame the light of day." "Come unto me, thou bankrupt soul; why dost thou linger yet? With my own life-blood I have paid the last mite of thy debt. My wealth, my goodness, give I thee, and, for thy royal dress, Will clothe thee with a seamless robe, my perfect right eousness." "I fain would come, I fain would pray, my tears alone must speak; I come; - yet seems my strengthless heart too wayward and too weak." "I come to thee, come thou to me, thou weary one, and rest; And my meek Spirit shall abide within thy troubled breast. His life and love, His power and peace, His majesty and might, Are with thee; listen to His voice; He speaks, and there is light." "I come, He draws me; I am thine, Lord Jesu, Thou art I ask no more, if only thus upon me Thou wilt shine." "My Father loves thee, and I love; my Spirit dwells in thee: Herein is life, and joy, and heaven, and immortality. But haply clouds will come, and hide thy Saviour from thine eyes; Say, wilt thou love me on beneath those future wintry skies?" "I only cast me on Thee, Lord; I love Thee, though unseen; But when shall this dividing veil be raised that hangs between?" "Press onward, ransom'd one, press on to that celestial realm: The voyage may be rough and long, but I am at the helm: The wilderness is void and vast; but, see, I go before thee: The battle may be fierce; but I lead on before to glory." "And shall I never leave Thy side upon that blissful shore. But see Thee in Thy glorious home, and love Thee evermore?" |