MY GOD, HOW WONDERFUL YOU ARE
"Your works are wonderful." Psalms 139:14
Words: Frederick William Faber (1814-1863), alt.
Music: "Azmon," Carl Gotthelf Gläser, 1828; arranged by Lowell Mason,
1839.
My God, how wonderful You are,
Your majesty, how bright;
How beautiful Your mercy seat
In depths of burning light!
How dread are Your eternal years,
O everlasting Lord
By prostrate spirits day and night
Incessantly adored!
How wonderful, how beautiful,
The sight of You must be;
Your endless wisdom, boundless power,
And glorious purity!
O how I fear You, living God,
With deep and tender fear;
And worship You with trembling hope,
And penitential tears!
Yet, I may love You, too, O Lord,
Almighty as You are;
For You have stooped to ask of me
The love of my poor heart!
No earthly father loves like You,
No mother, e'er so mild,
Bears and forbears as You have done,
With me, Your sinful child.
Father of Jesus, love's Reward,
What rapture it will be
Prostrate before Thy throne to lie,
And gaze on One in Three!