My God and King - Shenandoah Christian Music Camp

1 Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see,
And what I do in anything
To do it as for thee.

2 Not rudely, as a beast,
To run into an action;
But still to make thee prepossest,
And give it his perfection.

3 A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it pass,
And then the heaven espy.

4 All may of thee partake:
Nothing can be so mean,
Which with this tincture, "for thy sake,"
Will not grow bright and clean.

5 A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes that and the action fine.

6 This is the famous stone
That turneth all to gold;
For that which God doth touch and own
Cannot for less be told.

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