1 

God created us His vessels

   His expression to achieve;

Thus He made a heart to love Him

   And a spirit to receive.

 2 

With our heart we have to love Him,

   With our spirit Him possess

As our life, of Him partaking,

   That Himself we may express.

 3 

Satan has our heart corrupted,

   To our spirit death did give,

That the Lord we should not contact

   But by self attempt to live.

 4 

Thus the Lord in His salvation

   Heart and spirit has renewed

To recover our receiving

   And our loving aptitude.

 5 

It is by our heart's renewal

   We may God in love pursue,

And in newness of the spirit

   We may contact God anew.

 6 

Ever true and pure and single

   To the Lord our heart must be,

Poor in spirit, ever seeking

   God to contact constantly.

 7 

Keep our heart, Lord, in love's freshness,

   And our spirit strengthen more,

That in newness of the spirit

   We may touch Thee o'er and o'er.