Father, Teach Me

My heart is full of sin, and I’m defiled,
But still my Father wants me for his child;
So I will honor him as best I can,
And use his Spirit in the inner man.
Father, teach me how to watch and pray.
Father, help me walk the narrow way.

My Saviour’s love constrains me more and more
Each time I think about the cross He bore.
If He would die for me, although a King,
Then life for Him is but a little thing.
Father, teach me how to watch and pray.
Father, help me walk the narrow way.

I’ve never understood just what it was
That made my Saviour love me as He does,
But since my Saviour’s love included me;
My aim, my goal, my prayer will ever be:
“Father, teach me how to watch and pray.
Father, help me walk the narrow way.”

Ezra Brainard April 2015