09/24/20 I WANT A PRINCIPLE WITHIN

09/24/20 I WANT A PRINCIPLE WITHIN

Lyrics to Charles Wesley's, I WANT A PRINCIPLE WITHIN, referring to the experience and life of TOTAL SURRENDER.

I have included a music video by the Collinsworth and written lyrics as a meditation tool.

Read, meditate, follow this great counsel.

I want a principle within
Of watchful, godly fear,
A sensibility of sin,
A pain to feel it near.

Help me the first approach to feel
Of pride or wrong desire;
To catch the wandering of my will,
And quench the kindling fire.

From Thee that I no more may stray,
No more Thy goodness grieve,
Grant me a childlike faith, I pray,
A tender conscience give.

Quick as the focus of an eye,
O God, my conscience make!
Awake my soul when sin is nigh,
And keep it still awake.

Almighty God of truth and love,
To me Thy pow'r impart;
The burden from my soul remove,
The hardness from my heart.

O may the least omission pain
My re-awakened soul,
And drive me to that Grace again,
Which makes the wounded whole.