Christ My Song - 2215

To have each day the thing I wish - The Better Will
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The Better Will.

1. To have each day the thing I wish,
  Lord, that seems best to me;
but not to have the thing I wish,
  Lord, that seems best to thee. PDF - Midi

2. 'Tis hard to say without a sigh,
  Lord, let thy will be done;
'tis hard to say, My will is thine,
  and thine is mine alone.

3. Most truly then thy will is done,
  when mine, O Lord, is crossed;
'tis good to see my plans o'erthrown,
  my ways in thine all lost.

4. Whate'er thy purpose be, O Lord,
  in things or great or small,
let each minutest part be done,
  that thou mayst still be all.

5. In all the little things of life,
  thyself, Lord, may I see;
in little and in great alike
  reveal thy love to me.

6. So shall my undivided life
  to thee, my God, be given;
and all this earthly course below
  be one dear path to heaven.

Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope II, 1878, 93-94.

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