COLLECT FOR THE DAY
Forth in your name, O Lord, I go,
my daily labor to pursue,
you only, Lord, resolved to know
in all I think or speak or do.
The task your wisdom has assigned
here let me cheerfully fulfill;
in all my work your presence find,
and prove your good and perfect will.
You may I set at my right hand,
whose eyes my inmost secrets view,
and labor on at your command
and offer all my work to you.
Help me to bear your easy yoke,
in ev'ry moment watch and pray,
and still to things eternal look
and hasten to that glorious day.
Then with delight may I employ
all that your bounteous grace has given,
and run my earthly course with joy,
and closely walk with you in heaven.
(A Hymn-Prayer by Charles Wesley, the great hymn writer of Methodism and younger brother of John Wesley)
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