A Prayer of Trust

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1865

A Prayer of Trust.

"Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass."

Through all my path of life, dear Lord, I love to trace thy sweet providing, And on the covenant of thy word Repose my all in calm confiding.

Here, in my heart, thy dwelling-place, Oh! Master, work thine utmost pleasure; Subdue my will, give grace for grace, And grant thy Spirit without measure.

For all the work I have to do, Give me, I pray, a fuller meetness, That I may prove how strong and true The love that knows no incompleteness.

Oh! stablish, strengthen, settle me, Thy perfect will within revealing; Through life, my dear Consoler be, And draw me heavenward by thy dealing.

Just what I need from day to day, Thou wilt provide with wise ordaining; Thy goodness hedges in my way, And binds me by love's sweet constraining.

And when, within this human heart, Thy hand hath stirred some deeper yearning, Thou wilt not bid me sit apart, And crush the hope so newly burning;—

But thou my yielded soul wilt lead Unto her perfect consummation, Thy love supplying every need, Fulfilling every aspiration!