Open My Eyes To Thee

Open my eyes to thee
If ere you call me
Upon the sea
Who meet me
In my misory

How can it be
I who am broken
Yet loved
Beyond
Comprehension

Teach me to return
For all my heart to yearn
To learn and seek
For thy words to speak

And of Him who was sent
To be the scent of Him
Where ere my feet may fall
To walk in step with His call

To the world beyond
To the present places
And thy tender graces
To carry me

Not for me
But thy will
In me
May it ever be

To glory in you
And have thy work
Flow through
In every breath

Breathe in me
Thy life that will
Endure beyond
The trial and strife

More than ere'd distant desires
So fuel the fires of my heart
That they may start
With you

And all of you
That this joy beyond
May oft and only be
To express thy righteousness

And in my brokeness
May thy light shine through
So whether in drought
Or in plenty

May I bow
In reverance
And thanksgiving
For all you have given
Both in past and present

And in hope
To know you shall
Remain faithful
And so shall I rest

This life in not toiled in vain
If oft and always to rise
In your Name
And fall for your Name

In life and in death
It will all be
For gain

So come
What ere
Thy will may bring
And teach my heart
To sing

As I ride
Upon the wings
Of thy reckoning

Till all of life
Tis beckoning
Come to the feast
Of the Lamb

-Joshua Lee Foist