Lord, to know Thee as our Person

Lord

to know Thee as our Person

Earnestly we seek and pray;

To experience Thy fulness

In a constant inner way.

Never longer only outward

Or with soulish thoughts obsessed

But

O Lord

in realest contact

We by Thee would be possessed.

Lord

Thou art our Person

In our inmost being

May we constantly experience

This reality.

All the world is under darkness

Driven by the fallen soul

And the enemy designing

Does the soulish life control.

Such we were till God

through mercy

Caused His Son to dwell in us;

Now we fully come to know Him

In His church so glorious.

Once we walked a soulish person

Wandering in the wilderness

Never knowing that our spirit

Craved God’s fullness to express;

At the moment Jesus entered

Instantly the whole was changed.

Now we’re people spirit-centered!

Hallelujah! Rearranged!

Now our spirit is our person—

What a glorious fact is this!

Christ Himself in us expressing

God’s intent and holiness.

Not the soul-life’s vain delusion

But the spirit strengthened is;

Christ Himself is now our Person—

He is ours and we are His.