WHAT IS THIS POINT YOU LONG TO KNOW?

What is this point you long to know?
Methinks I hear you say ‘tis this,
I want to know I’m born of God,
An heir of everlasting bliss.

Is this the point you long to know?
The point is settled in my view;
For if you want to love your God,
It proves He first has loved you.

I want to know Christ died for me,
I want to feel the seal within;
I want to know Christ’s precious blood,
Was shed to wash away my sin.

I want to feel more love to Christ,
I want more liberty in prayer;
But when I look within my heart,
It almost drives me to despair.

I want a mind more firmly fixed,
On Christ, my everlasting Head;
I want to feel my soul alive,
And not so barren, or so dead.

I want more faith, a stronger faith,
I want to feel its power within;
I want to feel more love to God,
I want to feel less love to sin.

I want to live above the world,
And count it all but trash and toys;
I want more tokens of God’s grace,
Some foretaste of eternal joys.

I want — I know not what I want,
I want that real, special good;
Yet all my wants are summed up here,
I want to love! I want my God!

Is this the point you long to know?
The dead can neither feel nor see;
It is the slave that’s bound in chains,
That knows the worth of liberty.

So where a want like this is found,
I think I may be bold to say;
That God has fixed within thy heart,
What hell can never take away.

However small thy grace appears,
There’s plenty in the living Head;
These wants you feel, my Christian friend,
Were never found amongst the dead.

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