I Choose to Stay

If my pathway seems not clear

Then be my sight that leads to life.

If

Lord

I have Your presence dear

Then Lord my future will be bright.

I long to stay

Lord

earnestly!

But mercy’s all that’s keeping me.

I choose to stay

remain in life;

Save me from death

turn me to life.

Chase all the shades of night away;

Chase all dark thoughts of sin away.

Since through Your word I gain more life

Lord

let me come be filled with life.

As I go on

there’s a test:

Will I all things

dear Lord

detest?

Will I to “precious” things adhere

Yet lose Your presence

Lord

so dear?

If I’m by pride

ambition

lost

Then

Lord

expose me at all cost.

If foll’wing You is at great price

What can I give except my life?

Let me become a sacrifice

To live a self-denying life

A life that cares for nothing else

But Christ my all

my universe!