Humbly in Your Sight

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1 Humbly in your sight we come together, Lord;
grant us now the blessing of your presence here.

2 These, our hearts, are yours; we give them to you, Lord;
purify our love to make it like your own.

3 These, our eyes are yours, we give them to you, Lord;
may we always see your world as with your sight.

4 These, our hands, are yours; we give them to you, Lord;
give them strength and skill to do our work for you.

5 These, our feet are yours, we give them to you, Lord;
may we walk along the path of life with you.

6 These, our tongues, are yours; we give them to you, Lord;
may we speak your healing words of life and truth.

7 These, our ears are yours, we give them to you, Lord;
open them to hear your words of guidance, Lord.

8 Our whole selves are yours; we give them to you, Lord;
take us now and keep us yours forevermore.

Source: Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition #496

Translator: Tom Colvin

Thomas Stevenson Colvin (Tom), Church of Scotland missionary in Malawi and Ghana, was born in Glasgow on 16 April 1925. He attended the Royal Technical College, Glasgow (now Strathclyde University) where he was chairman of the Student Christian Movement and from where he graduated B.Sc. in 1945. After a period with the Royal Engineers in Burma and Singapore, Colvin returned to Scotland in 1948 to become student assistant minister at Fallin Parish Church in Stirling. Later in the same year he began a three year course in divinity at Trinity College, Glasgow, was again an active member of student bodies, and held the post of president of the SCM. He spent a year after leaving Glasgow as the Travelling Secretary of the SCM, then between 1952 a… Go to person page >

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First Line: Humbly in your sight
Title: Humbly in Your Sight
Translator: Tom Colvin
Source: Malawi
Language: English
Copyright: © 1967 Hope Publishing Company

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