(William Secker, "The Consistent Christian" 1660)
"Lord, I believe—help my unbelief!" Mark 9:24
Lord, I see—but enlighten my darkness!
Lord, I hear—but cure my deafness!
Lord, I move—but quicken my dullness!
Lord, I desire—but help my unwillingness!
Wherever sin proves hateful—it shall not prove hurtful.
What an apology does a sorrowful Savior make for His
sleeping saints! "The spirit is willing—but the flesh is weak!"
Take a carnal man, and what he can do—that he will not do.
Take a Christian man, and what he would do—that he cannot do.
God will pity impotency—but He will punish obstinacy.
It would be folly, indeed, to think that our fields have
no grain in them—because there is some chaff about
the wheat; or that the ore had no gold in it—because
there is some dross mixed among it.
"Lord, I believe—help my unbelief!" Mark 9:24
Lord, I see—but enlighten my darkness!
Lord, I hear—but cure my deafness!
Lord, I move—but quicken my dullness!
Lord, I desire—but help my unwillingness!
Wherever sin proves hateful—it shall not prove hurtful.
What an apology does a sorrowful Savior make for His
sleeping saints! "The spirit is willing—but the flesh is weak!"
Take a carnal man, and what he can do—that he will not do.
Take a Christian man, and what he would do—that he cannot do.
God will pity impotency—but He will punish obstinacy.
It would be folly, indeed, to think that our fields have
no grain in them—because there is some chaff about
the wheat; or that the ore had no gold in it—because
there is some dross mixed among it.
