HYMN DAY! This is really more a contemporary chorus than a hymn, but I’ve always loved it. In 1982, Eddie Espinoza wrote “Change My Heart, O God.” Here’s the story behind the song, as told by Eddie to an interviewer in 2016: “I had been a Christian since 1969, but I saw a lot of things in my life that needed to be discarded. I had slowly become very complacent. I acknowledged my complacency, and I prayed to the Lord, ‘The only way that I can follow you is for you to change my appetite, the things that draw me away. You must change my heart!’” The words really are a prayer. When we acknowledge we are but the clay and ask the Potter to mold us, our hearts change.

Verse
Change my heart, O God,
Make it ever true;
Change my heart, O God,
May I be like you.

Chorus
You are the Potter,
I am the clay;
Mold me and make me,
This is what I pray.

Verse
Change my heart, O God,
Make it ever true;
Change my heart O God,
may I be like you.