神是一切
哦，旨意征服万有的神，
除了享受你，投身侍奉你以外，万物都不能给我安慰；
你是万物的主，一切享受都是按你所赐，别无其他。
我以你的旨意大大欢喜，不管它是怎样，在一切方面将会如何，
如果你命令我在任何事上自己决定，我要选择把一切交给你，
因为你是无限智慧，不能出错，
不像我，总有犯错危险。
想到万事都在你的调遣之下，我就欢喜，
我所喜悦，就是把它们交给你。
这样，祷告就完全变为赞美，
我所做的一切，就是赞美和感谢你。
对你所赐一切恩惠，我有什么能给你的呢？
我在两难之间，不知如何去行；
我盼望能有所回报，但没有任何可以献上，
只能欢喜，你成就一切，
天上地下，没有一物能分享你的荣耀；
我自己不能行任何事来荣耀你的尊名，
但我能靠着恩典，欢喜把灵魂和身体降服于你，
我知道，你是给信心创始成终的那一位，
惟独由你作成，救赎工作的一切，
我身上任何的善行，好思想，是你能力和恩典的果效，
你在我身上做工，让我渴望，让我去行，
这都是为了你的美意。
哦神，多么奇怪，人竟能对自己作为受造之物的能力和良善如此夸夸其谈！
你若不拦阻我们片刻，我们都会变成魔鬼的化身。
你用苦涩的经历，教导我这关于我自己的一切。
GOD THE ALL
O GOD WHOSE WILL CONQUERS ALL,
There is no comfort in anything
apart from enjoying thee
and being engaged in thy service;
Thou art All in all, and all enjoyments
are what to me thou makest them, and no more.
I am well pleased with thy will, whatever it is, or should be in all respects,
And if thou bidst me decide for myself in any affair,
I would choose to refer all to thee,
for thou art infinitely wise and cannot do amiss
as I am in danger of doing.
I rejoice to think that all things are at thy disposal,
and it delights me to leave them there.
Then prayer turns wholly into praise,
and all I can do is to adore and bless thee.
What shall I give thee for all thy benefits?
I am in a strait betwixt two, knowing not what to do;
I long to make some return, but have nothing to offer,
and can only rejoice that thou doest all,
that none in heaven or on earth shares thy honour;
I can of myself do nothing to glorify thy blessed name,
but I can through grace cheerfully surrender soul and body to thee,
I know that thou art the author and finisher of faith,
that the whole work of redemption is thine alone,
that every good work or thought found in me
is the effect of thy power and grace,
that thy sole motive in working in me
to will and to do is for thy good pleasure.
O God, it is amazing that men can talk so much
about man’s creaturely power and goodness,
when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment,
we should be devils incarnate.
This, by bitter experience,
thou hast taught me concerning myself.
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