Hymn of the Month – October 2022: “Fill Thou my life, O Lord my God”

1 Corinthians 10:31 (NKJV)

³¹ Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Fill thou my life, O Lord my God,
In ev’ry part with praise,
That my whole being may proclaim
Thy being and thy ways.

Not for the lip of praise alone,
Nor e’en the praising heart,
I ask, but for a life made up
Of praise in ev’ry part;

Praise in the common things of life,
Its goings out and in,
Praise in each duty and each deed,
However small and mean.

Fill ev’ry part of me with praise;
Let all my being speak
Of thee and of they love, O Lord,
Poor though I be, and weak.

So shalt thou, Lord, from me, e’en me,
Receive the glory due,
And so shall I begin on earth
The song for ever new.

So shalt each fear, each fret, each car,
Be turned into song;
And ev’ry winding of the way
The echo shall prolong.

So shall no part of day or night
From sacredness be free:
But all my life, in ev’ry step,
Be fellowship with thee.

Horatius Bonar, 1808 – 1889