Recall how David swore (Adapted)

Recall how David swore

“I’ll not come into my house

Nor go up to my bed

Give slumber to mine eyelids

Until I find a place for Thee

A place

O Lord

for Thee.”

Our mighty God desires a home

Where all His own may come.

How blinded we have been:

“We’ll build Your habitation”

When we are short of Christ—

We need Your saturation!

O Lord

You care for our house!

Oh

what a blessed word!

As You’re to God

You’d be to us—

A mutual abode.

There’s nothing that we are

Or have or do well-pleasing;

We need Thee

glorious Christ

Inwrought into our being.

O Lord

our heart’s still vacant now!

Come in and settle down.

Come saturate and permeate

And fill us with Yourself.

Our spirit You have filled

At our regeneration

But mind

emotion

will

Await Your saturation.

How much of You is built in us

To make our heart Your home?

O Triune God

we welcome You.

Come build

oh

build in us.

Into our innermost

Intrinsic constitution

Come

Lord

Yourself dispense

By constant

fresh infusion;

Transform us

Lord

and work Yourself

As God’s embodiment

Into our heart

and life each part

With Your reality.

To build Your house today

Self-effort You’re refusing—

All stubble

wood

and hay;

Gold

silver

gems

You’re using.

The consummated Triune God

Transmitted into us

Now builds Himself into a home—

His dwelling

glorious.

(Repeat the last four lines)