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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 316 · Words: Frances Ridley Havergal
Live Out Thy Life Within Me
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A consecration hymn by Frances Ridley Havergal expressing the believer's complete surrender to Christ, using the imagery of the body as a temple through which God's Shekinah glory shines forth. It became a beloved text of the Victorian holiness movement.
Verse 1
Live out Thy life within me, O Jesus, King of kings!
Be Thou Thyself the answer To all my questionings;
Live out Thy life within me, In all things have Thy way!
I, the transparent medium Thy glory to display.
Verse 2
The temple has been yielded, And purified of sin;
Let Thy Shekinah glory Now shine forth from within,
And all the earth keep silence, The body henceforth be
Thy silent, gentle servant, Moved only as by Thee.
Verse 3
Its members every moment Held subject to Thy call,
Ready to have Thee use them, Or not be used at all;
Held without restless longing, Or strain, or stress, or fret
Or chafings at Thy dealings, Or thoughts of vain regret.
Verse 4
But restful, calm, and pliant, From bend and bias free,
Awaiting Thy decision, When Thou hast need of me.
Live out Thy life within me, O Jesus, King of kings!
Be Thou the glorious answer To all my questionings.
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