743--God created us His vessels

God created us His vessels

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	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.	Every 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.