The Heart of a Servant

The heart of a servant, please, Lord, grant to me;
      A profitable servant, and not a selfish tyrant, let me be.
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity doth edify;
      Let me live in your love, or I feel I surely will die.

To live in your favor is life sublime;
      To daily work out your will is a glorious time.
A day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere;
      Better to be a doorkeeper in your house than a ruler anywhere.


Oh, to have a heart that beats to the tune of my Lord;
      A heart that is restrained by your Love’s strong cord.
Though subject to vanity you fashioned me to be;
      If my soul pines for your favor, it is pleasing to thee.


Please cause all my false and hypocritical ways to die,
      As I beseech your Holy Spirit my heart to try.
May I patiently walk each day by faith in the path you have trod,
      As a servant, pressing toward the prize of the high-calling of God.

Composed by Jim Newnam

Psalm 51:7
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”

The six-pointed Star of David is the symbol of the hyssop blossom. I have adopted the Star of David as an emblem of God’s Goodness and Salvation.