What shall we offer our good Lord

Verse 1

What shall we offer our good Lord, poor nothings, for his boundless grace? Fain would we his great name record and worthily set forth his praise.

Verse 2

Great object of our growing love, to whom our more than all we owe, open the fountain from above, and let it our full souls o’erflow.

Verse 3

So shall our lives thy power proclaim, thy grace for every sinner free, till all the world shall learn thy name, shall all stretch out their hands to thee.

Verse 4

Open a door which earth and hell may strive to shut, but strive in vain; let thy word richly in us dwell, and let our gracious fruit remain.

Verse 5

O multiply the sower’s seed! and fruit we every hour shall bear, throughout the world thy gospel spread, thy everlasting truth declare.