HELPLESS, BUT NOT HOPELESS...a hymn of man's desperation and God's provision

The greatness of God's power in saving sinners can only
be seen against the background of man's desperate condition.
What a glorious doctrine is the new birth to the helpless sinner!
May the Church return to biblical doctrine so that it may evangelize
again to the glory of God.

Here are some rich convicting and comforting words
from the pen of Isaac Watts that I have entitled as HELPLESS.
May the Lord encourage you this day in His gospel of grace.

"But God, being rich in mercy, 

because of the great love with which he loved us, 

even when we were dead in our trespasses, 

made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

-Ephesians 2:4-5

Helpless

by Isaac Watts

How helpless guilty nature lies,

Unconscious of its load!

The heart, unchanged can never rise

To happiness and God.

The will perverse, the passions blind,

In paths of ruin stray;

Reason, debased, can never find

The safe, the narrow way.

Can aught, beneath a power divine,

The stubborn will subdue?

Tis Thine, almighty Saviour, Thine,

To form the heart anew.

O change these wretched hearts of ours, 

And give them life divine!

Then shall our passions and our powers,

Almighty Lord, be Thine!