O For a Closer Walk With God

Played this song yesterday for church and realized how much I needed to not only hear the words but own them as well. May all of our lives be striving for a closer walk with our God.

O for a closer walk with God, a calm and heavenly frame,

A light to shine upon the road, that leads me to the Lamb!

Where is that blessedness I knew? When first I saw the Lord? 

Where is the soul-refreshing view, Of Jesus and His word?

What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their mem'ry still!

But they have left an aching void, the world can never fill.

Return, O Holy Dove, return! Sweet messenger of rest!

I hate the sins that made Thee mourn, and drove Thee from my breast.

The dearest idol I have known, whate'er that idol be,

Help me to tear it from Thy throne, and worship only Thee.

So shall my walk be close with God, serene and clam my frame;

So purer light shall mark the road, that leads me to the Lamb!

-William Cowper, 1731-1800