This Coming Year

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” (Psalms 90:12)

Dear Master, for this coming year
Just one request I bring:
I do not pray for happiness
Or any earthly thing

I do not ask to understand
The way Thou leadest me,
But this I ask: Teach me to do
The thing that pleaseth Thee.

I want to know Thy guiding voice,
To walk with Thee each day.
Dear Master, make me swift to hear
And ready to obey.

And thus the year I now begin
A happy year will be
If I am seeking just to do
The thing that pleaseth Thee.

“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” (Ephesians 5:15-17)