Hymns in Lent - Day 34

  "And I will take away the stony heart, and will give you a heart of flesh" - Ezekiel 36:26

 

O for a lance of heavenly day,

To take this stubborn heart away;

And thaw with beams of love divine,

This heart, this frozen heart of mine!

 

The rocks can rend; the earth can quake;

 The seas can roar; the mountains shake:

Of feeling all things how some sign,

But this unfeeling heart of mine.

To hear the sorrow thou hast felt,

O Lord, an adamant would melt;

But I can read each moving line,

And nothing moves this heart of mine.

Thy judgements too, unmov'd, I hear,

(Amazing thought!) which devils fear,

Goodness and wrath in vain combine

To stir this stupid heart of mine.

But something yet can do the deed;

And that blest something much I need;

Thy Spirit can from dross refine,

And melt and change this heart of mine.

The Methodist Pocket Hymn-Book. New York:   

J. Soule and T. Mason Publishing Co., 1818.