This week, I’m pondering my favorite Pentecost hymns, looking for the wisdom that speaks to my heart, year after year.
“Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove,
With all Thy quickening powers;
Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.”
Isaac Watts, 1707
Hymn-writer Watts (>750 hymns < 75 years) put my heart condition to poetic verse. He diagnosed the state of my soul and prescribed the cure — more 300+ years ago.
Come Holy Spirit, transform my couch-potato lethargy into righteous action. Light a fire in and under me. Fill me with sacred love — love for You, love for others.
