O To Be Like Thee

Great Master,

teach us with Your skillful hand;

Let not the music that is in us die!

Great Sculptor, hew and polish us;

Nor let hidden and lost,

Your form within us lie!

- Horatius Bonar -

O to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,

This is my constant longing and prayer;

Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,

Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

O to be like Thee! full of compassion,

Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,

Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,

Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,

Holy and harmless, patient and brave;

Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,

Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! Lord, I am coming

Now to receive anointing divine;

All that I am and have I am bringing,

Lord, from this moment all shall be Thine.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,

Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;

Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,

Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Chorus

O to be like Thee! O to be like Thee,

Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;

Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;

Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

- Thomas O. Chisholm -

For we are his workmanship, 

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, 

which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

- Ephesians 2:10 -

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, 

are changed into the same image from glory to glory, 

even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

- 2 Corinthians 3:18 -

We are to daily "put on Christ"

- His love and character -

even as we put on our garments.

But put ye on the LORD Jesus Christ, 

and make not provision for the flesh, 

to fulfil the lusts thereof.

- Romans 13:14 -

Have a blessed and beautiful Lord's Day!