Lutheran Hymnal: 077 - One Thing More Than All My Heart is Craving

1 One thing more than all my heart is craving As my food by night and day; Blest with this, all ills and trials braving, Through this wilderness I stray: Ever on the Man to gaze adoring, Who, with blood-sweat and with tears imploring, On His face submissive sank, And the Father’s chalice drank. 2 Ever shall mine eyes, His form retaining, View the Lamb once slain for me, As He yonder, pale and uncomplaining, Hangs upon the bitter tree; As He, thirsting, wrestled in His anguish, That in hell my soul might never languish, Of me thinking, when His cry, “It is finished!” rose on high. 3 O my Saviour, never shall Thy kindness Nor my guilt forgotten be: When I sat a stranger in my blindness, Thou didst still remember me; For Thy sheep Thou long hadst interceded Ere the shepherd’s gentle voice was heeded, And-a costly ransom price! – Bought me with Thy sacrifice. 4 I am Thine; say Thou, “Amen for ever!” Blessed Jesus, mine Thou art! Let Thy precious name escape me never; Stamp it burning on my heart. Here to live and die, in Thee believing, With Thee all things bearing and achieving: This my solemn promise be, Till in heaven Thy face I see.