In looking through my music for a song to play for the offertory this Sunday I came across this song. It’s actually a vocal solo rather than instrumental, from a Hale & Wilder collection, and was written way back in 1979 by John Purifoy. What a lesson in these words. Too often we think that the Christian life is second nature to us now, like breathing out and breathing in. Wait, that’s another song. Sorry. Instead, the Christian life is something we have to learn, and that learning comes from God. In fact, everything about the Christian’s life comes from God: the knowledge of His holy ways, help, comfort, peace, rest and power, and that only because we are only His!
Teach Me, Lord
Teach me, Lord, to be Thy servant,
Seek Thy will, and know Thy holy ways.
Give me help when my strength is waning,
Comfort me in times of failing.
Send me peace when the darkness is spread-ing o’er me,
That I might know You are my light,
You are the source of all my hopes and joys.
Forgive me, blessed Father,
When my footsteps may falter.
Help me rise above ev’ry tempter’s snare,
May I rest always in Your care.
Speed the loftiest wings of Your Spirit unto my soul.
And fill me with pow’r divine, that I may be only Thine,
Complete and whole am I, for I am only Thine,
For I am only Thine.
Copyright 1979 by Word Music
