If I gained the world
but lost the Savior
Were my life worth living for a day?
Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort
In the things that soon must pass away?
Would my gain be worth the lifelong strife?
Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing
For a moment with a Christ-filled life?
Had I wealth and love in fullest measure
And a name revered both far and near
Yet no hope beyond
no harbor waiting
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer;
Who endured the cross and died for me
Could then all the world afford a refuge
Whither
in my anguish
I might flee?
O what emptiness!—without the Savior
’Mid the sins and sorrows here below!
And eternity
how dark without Him!
Only night and tears and endless woe!
What
though I might live without the Savior
When I come to die
how would it be?
O to face the valley’s gloom without Him!
And without Him all eternity!
O the joy of having all in Jesus!
What a balm the broken heart to heal!
Ne’er a sin so great
but He’ll forgive it
Nor a sorrow that He does not feel!
If I have but Jesus
only Jesus
Nothing else in all the world beside—
O then everything is mine in Jesus;
For my needs and more He will provide.
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