Compared to some of the self loving, high flying prayer requests expressed in today’s praise and worship songs, the “wants” of this old spiritual are beautifully humble: |
Lord I want to be a Christian inna my heart.... |
Aren’t all these aspirations perfectly in accord with God’s desires expressed in the Bible? And isn’t this order pretty much how we might progress? One could do very well making each of these four verses a five minute prayer. |
Though staff lines be missing from your screen, they will print. |