Poetry Saturday—My Strength Is Gone

November 15, 2014 — Craig T. Owens

My strength is gone, my nature dies;

I sink beneath Thy weighty hand;

Faint to revive, and fall to rise:

I fall, and yet by faith I stand.

I stand, and will not let Thee go,

Till I Thy Name, Thy Nature know.

Lame as I am, I take the prey;

Hell, earth, and sin, with ease o’ercome;

I leap for joy, pursue my way,

And as a bounding hart fly home,

Through all eternity to prove,

Thy Nature and Thy Name is love. — Charles Wesley, on what he conceived to be Jacob’s prayer as he wrestled with God (see Genesis 32:22-30)

Craig T. Owens