While Yet It Is Day

Be Thou, oh Father, my strength for the way,
Guide me with wisdom and be Thou my stay.
Open the door and let no delay,
Help us reach heathen,
While yet it is day.

Be Thou, oh Savior, my Word and my Life,
Thy Word incarnate keep me from sin’s strife.
Open the door and let no delay,
Help us reach heathen,
While yet it is day.

Be Thou, oh Spirit, the indwelling pow’r
Sending me out to the fields in this hour.
Open the door and let no delay,
Help us reach heathen,
While yet it is day.

To the tune of “Be Thou my Vision”

—Harold R Troyer

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Alternative wordings:

• Sing “nations” instead of “heathen”
• Sing “our” and “us” instead of “my” and “me”