Monday Meditation: Come, My Soul, Thou Must Be Waking

The Lord is good to those who wait hopefully and expectantly
for Him, to those who seek Him, inquire of and for Him, 
 and require Him by right of necessity and on
the authority of God's Word."
(Lamentations 3:25)

Cardinals and Pine

Robert Hautman

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Come, my soul, thou must be waking; 

Now is breaking

O'er the earth another day: 

 Come to Him

Who made this splendor; 

 See thou render

All thy feeble powers can pay.

 
Thou too hail the light returning;

Ready burning

Be the incense of thy powers;

For the night is safely ended,

God hath tended

With His care thy helpless hours.

Pray that He may prosper ever

Each endeavor,

When thine aim is good and true;

But that He may ever thwart thee,

And convert thee,

When thou evil wouldst pursue.

Only God's free gifts abuse not,

Light refuse not,

But His Spirit's voice obey;

Thou with Him shall dwell, beholding

Light enfolding

All things in unclouded day.

"Come, My Soul, Thou Must Be Waking"
(Published in 1700)
Friedrich Rudolf Ludwig Freiherr von Canitz
(1654-1699)
German poet
He is said to have been one of the
favorite poets of Frederick the Great
(1712-1786)
King of Prussia