Lord, to know Thee as the Body

Lord

to know Thee as the Body

Is my desperate need today

Oh

to see Thee in Thy members

’Tis for this I long and pray.

No more just to know Thy headship

In an individual way

But to see Thee incarnated

As the Body-Christ

I pray.

Through the years

Thy saints have sought Thee

Longing for reality;

Gazing upward

searching inward

Thirsting for the sight of Thee.

Now reveal that Christ in heaven

Is the Body manifest;

And the Christ who dwells within us

As the Body is expressed.

Prone to be misled

I know it

By my lofty thoughts of Thee

Easy ’tis for self to seek Thee

Yet not touch reality

Oh

how much I need to find Thee

In Thy members here below.

God eternal dwells among us

Manifest in flesh to know.

Limit

Lord

my independence

Let me to Thy Body turn;

Not just seeking light from heaven

But the church’s sense to learn.

May we be the stones for building

Not the formless

useless clay

Gain in us Thy heart’s desire

Corporately Thyself display.