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O living Word of God, God's image

1.O living Word of God, God's image
true,
Thou art the content of God's written
word;
God in Thee we have met, God's
fulness found,
And in the Scripture we Thyself have
heard.
2.No man has e'er seen God, apart from
Thee,
Without the Scripture Thee we'd
hardly see;
Thou to the human race God hast
declared,
And thru the Scripture Thou art shown
to me.
3.Perfect embodiment Thou art of God,
A portrait full the Scripture gives of
Thee;
In Thee we comprehend God's image
true,
And thru the Scripture Thou art real to
me.
4.Life-giving Spirit Thou, as well as
Word,
Now e'en the Spirit in the Word Thou
art;
When thru the Spirit giv'n, I touch the
Word,
Fulness divine to me Thou dost impart.
5.In Thee I may with God have
fellowship,
And thru the Scripture I on Thee may
feed;
Thru study of the Word with prayer to
God
Thy glorious riches fully meet my
need.
6.Teach me to exercise my spirit, Lord,
Thy word to study, so to contact Thee,
That Thou, the living Word, with
Scripture, too,
As one my daily manna e'er may be.