To Your Temple, Lord, Draw Near

What: This hymn, redone by yours truly, is based on the events of the Divine Service, from the entrance, to the invocation, to the Scripture readings, to the sermon, to the Creed, to the prayers, to the Lord's Supper, to the exit.
Who: The original was written by the Moravian hymnwriter, James Montgomery.
Changes: Many hymnals have worked to make the original, "To Thy Temple I Repair," sound more natural and have sounder theology. The version here is a compilation of those changes, with a few tweaks of my own. The seventh stanza is mine.
Note: I did not know what to do about the fourth line of stanza one. I wanted to say "Here we receive our Savior's grace," but couldn't fit it in. 'Get,' 'take,' and 'here we hear' did not seem appropriate.
Tune: The meter is 77 77 and the traditional tune is GOTT SEI DANK, LSB 830.

To Your temple, Lord, draw near;

We have come to meet You here.

This earth has no better place:

Here we taste our Savior's grace.

We through Him are reconciled,

We through Him became Your child.

Abba, Father, grant us grace

In Your courts to seek Your face.

While we hearken to Your Law,

Fill our souls with humble awe

Till Your Gospel brings to us

Life and light and lordliness.

While Your prophet here proclaims

Peace and pardon in Your Name,

Thru his voice, by faith may we

Hear You speaking lovingly.

While Your glorious praise is sung,

Touch our lips, unloose our tung

So our gladsome souls may bless

Christ the Lord, our Righteousness.

While the prayers of saints ascend,

God of love, to them attend.

Hear us, for Your Spirit pleads;

Hear, for Jesus intercedes.

Jesus, Human yet Divine,

Here You come in bread and wine,

In this blessed Sacrament

We in peace and joy are sent.

From Your house when we return,

May our hearts within us burn,

And at ev'ning let us say,

"We have walked with God today."

St. 1-6,8 James Montgomery, ed MDS
St. 7 MDS