Waiting, O God

Waiting, O God

Tune: MY DEAR EVELEEN

Waiting, O God, are thy faithful people

Silent and still, their hearts unfurled

For brothers and sisters, our actions full and feeble,

Take on ourselves the weight of the world

But we with doubt and sin, infecting

Spreading corruption, pain, and greed

When will faith its armor protecting

Give to mankind the strength it needs?

So from our knees, to the Lord Almighty,

Praise be thy name, thy will be done.

Help us to bend and to love, always rightly

As we are led to follow thy Son.

‘nd when temptation, doubt, and fear o'ertake us

When we cannot endure the pain

Please then O God, do not e'er forsake us,

Drive us humbly to our knees again.

Now on our knees we come humbly to thy table

Arm in arm, our love made clear

We come not because we are worthy or are able

But save that Jesus Christ invites us here

He gives us his body and blood he's shedding

Forgiving our sins, all washed away

To himself our souls embedding

That we would not ever go astray

Help us to live in Thine ever present moment

Open our hearts to hear Thy call.

We seek to discern Thy will, though still and silent,

‘nd place on the altar our gifts, our all.

Though we may not know where the path is leading

Filled with fear, beyond today,

Give, us faith, your spirit, ne’er receding,

To know you’ll guide us each step of Thy way.