O Lord, You Know What’s in My Heart

O Lord

You know what’s in my heart

Desires concealed in my inward parts;

Though “I am Yours” my mouth’s confessed

By many loves my heart’s possessed.

O Lord

my desp’rate cry now heed—

Regain my heart! Your help I need!

O’erturn

expose what weighs me down

That in these things I would not drown.

How blind I’ve been

how filled with pride

Believing in the things of sight

In things uncertain placing hope

And not in Him who all upholds.

Oh

turn my heart from meaner things;

Forgive me

Lord

for wavering.

I must pursue the One who’s real;

The false

release; no more deceived!

Cause me

dear Lord

to truly see—

I’m Yours; a man of God indeed.

Your life and nature I

too

share;

To flee earth’s snares

my earnest pray’r.

My heart

dear Lord

I yield anew

To only love

lay hold on You.

With cords of man

with bands of love

Lord

keep me faithful till You come.