Dear Savior, Hear My Contrite Prayer

 

A Conversation

LM

Tune: O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht (TLH 148)

 

1 Dear Savior, hear my contrite prayer,

My sin and shame are everywhere,

Your Law is thundering at my guilt –

Was it in vain Your blood was spilt? 

 

2 Dear child, hide in My wounds a while,

Until you see your Father’s smile;

The pain and fear will soon be gone,

And you will praise what I have done.

 

3 Forgive me, Lord, my feeble faith –

My flesh is full of sin and death,

And when I feel my spirit’s strong,

I find it weak before too long.

 

4 My strength in weakness shows My love,

Which even death cannot remove,

Since when I suffered all death’s pain,

Deathless I rose to life again.

 

5 Yes, but my Shepherd, You can see,

Death’s shadow here still covers me,

I only feel my need and fear -

Your comfort! When will it appear? 

 

6 I was made man to save your soul,

So leave your life to My control;

Beneath the cross God makes you be

His own dear child, conformed to Me.

 

7 Yes, Jesus, all the weight I feel

Turns me to grasp what You reveal

In Your pure Word, that shining Light

That pierces darkest shades of night.

 

8 The way is narrow, child, I know,

But I teach sinners how to go

By faith in grace that in my wounds

More than your sins increase abounds. 

 

9 Dear Savior, I will wait with joy

No lie is able to destroy;

When all earth offers fades away,

You Word within my heart will stay! 

            3/25/19