God created us His vessels

God created us His vessels His expression to achieve; Thus He made a heart to love Him And a spirit to receive.

With our heart we have to love Him, With our spirit Him possess As our life, of Him partaking, That Himself we may express.

Satan has our heart corrupted, To our spirit death did give, That the Lord we should not contact But by self attempt to live.

Thus the Lord in His salvation Heart and spirit has renewed To recover our receiving And our loving aptitude.

It is by our heart's renewal We may God in love pursue, And in newness of the spirit We may contact God anew.

Ever true and pure and single To the Lord our heart must be, Poor in spirit, ever seeking God to contact constantly.

Keep our heart, Lord, in love's freshness, And our spirit strengthen more, That in newness of the spirit We may touch Thee o'er and o'er.