Let your love so warm our souls, O Lord, that we may gladly surrender ourselves with all that we are and have to you. Let your love fall as fire from heaven upon the altar of our hearts; teach us to guard it carefully by continual devotion and quietness of mind, and to cherish with anxious care every spark of its holy flame, with which your good Spirit would quicken us, so that neither height nor depth, things present nor things to come, may ever separate us therefrom. Strengthen our souls, animate our cold hearts with your warmth and tenderness, that we may no more live as in a dream, but walk before you as pilgrims in earnest to reach their home. And grant us all at last to meet with your holy saints before your throne, and there rejoice in your love. Gerhard Tersteegen (1697–1769) #BibleTruth #GetInTheWord #Christianity #Bible #Scripture