Number: 173
English: 250 (Tune)
Title: I Want to Walk With God
Name: Ellers
Words: Sam Jones
Music: E. J. Hopkins (Arranged)
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I want to walk with God in clear¤er light.
His light dis¤pels the dark¤ness gloom and night.
I want more faith, more hope, more con¤fi¤dence
In Him who is my soul’s sure rec¤om¤pense.

My Sav¤iour’s name and im¤age I would bear,
Sus¤tained by grace His suf¤ferings here to share,
This price¤less gift I shall from God par¤take,
Be¤lieve in Him and suf¤fer for His sake.

To suf¤fer thus to me is ho¤ly ground,
In Him my con¤so¤la¤tions shall a¤bound;
The dai¤ly death I shall no long¤er dread,
Since Je¤sus is Him¤self my liv¤ing Head.

De¤liv¤ered un¤to death and dai¤ly strife,
All that is mor¤tal swal¤lowed up in life,
The self¤same thing that works in me, is God,
Who leads me in the way my Sav¤iour trod.

O, may the light of faith shine clear¤er still,
Lest I come short and fail to do His will,
The prom¤is¤es I shall be¤lieve, I must,
In God that can¤not lie my soul shall trust.

I want the love where¤with God loved His Son
To be my por¤tion, bind and make us one;
Then sanc¤ti¤fied in spir¤it, mind and heart,
E¤ter¤nal¤ly made one, we can¤not part.

The suf¤f’rings of this pre¤sent time I need,
That I may learn in thought, in word, in deed,
How to put off the old, put on the new–
My Sav¤iour’s mind and will ob¤serve and do.