Christian Worship Self-distrust.
‘T is a point I long to know,-
Oft it causes anxious thought,-
Do I love the Lord, or no?
Am I his, or am I not?
If I love, why am I thus?
Why this dull and lifeless frame?
Hardly, sure, can they be worse,
Who have never heard his name.
If I pray, or hear, or read,
Sin is mixed with all I do;
You that love the Lord indeed,
Tell me, is it thus with you?
Yet I mourn my stubborn will,
Find my sin a grief and thrall;
Should I grieve for what I feel,
If I did not love at all?
Father, let me love thee more,
If I love at all, I pray;
If I have not loved before,
Help me to begin to-day.