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A heart-felt Prayer...

“Oh, To Be Like Thee”

1. Oh! to be like Thee, blessed Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh! to be like ee, oh! to be like ee,
Blessed Redeemer, pure as ou art;
Come in y sweetness, come in y fullness;
Stamp ine own image deep on my heart.

2. Oh! to be like Thee, full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wand’ring sinner to find.

3. Oh! to be like Thee, lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer, others to save.

4. Oh! to be like Thee, Lord, I am coming,
Now to receive th’ anointing divine;
All that I am and have I am bringing,
Lord, from this moment all shall be Thine.

5. Oh! to be like Thee, while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love,
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Thomas Obadiah Chisholm was just starting on his journey, and had some feelings he wanted to share. In the 1890’s,
young Thomas Chisholm was a humble believer who nevertheless had ambition that moved him. Later, he might have had
reason to feel discouraged at one point, as he’d tried a few vocations that didn’t last, forcing him into plan B…or was it in
fact C or D?

Could it be that his real purpose didn’t jell with the paths he initially chose? Could this 20-something have suspected, as
he wrote “Oh, To Be Like Thee” in that last decade of the century, what still lay ahead and how his life up to that point had
been shaping him for the future? ‘Being like thee’ no doubt took Chisholm places he had not suspected were in his path.

Make this your prayer today. God will surely hear!

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