Longing
As the deer pants for streams of water, So my soul is longing after You. Oh how my soul thirsts for God, For the living God. When will I enter His presence, When will I come to see His face? Night and day my tears have been my only food. All the while they say […]
1. Like a deer to the water, so I long for my Father, For my God, and no other, how my soul flies away! You, the lovely and pure Light, in the day and the midnight Eyes are longing for Your sight, tears flow at Your delay. 2. Flying over the water, my eternal Creator, […]
Refrain We’re going home! Shake off your sad dejection. We’re going home! To live in sweet perfection. 1. O, how I long to see that day, When the redeem’d shall come To Zion clad in white array— Their blissful happy home. Refrain 2. To hear the hallelujah’s roll From the unnumber’d throng: The kingdom spread […]
1. How tedious and lonesome the hours, While Jesus, my Saviour delays! I’ve sought Him in solitude’s bow’rs, And looked for Him all the long days. 2. He lingers—I pray tell me why His chariot no sooner returns? To see Him in clouds of the sky, My soul with intensity burns. 3. I long to […]
1. How happy, how joyful, how loving I feel, I want to feel more love, yea, more love and zeal, I want my love perfect, I want my love pure, That all things with patience I may well endure. 2. I want to be little, more simple, more mild, More like my blest Master, and […]
