Jesus, I my cross have taken

Jesus

I my cross have taken

All to leave and follow Thee;

Destitute

despised

forsaken

Thou

from hence

my all shalt be.

Perish every fond ambition

All I’ve sought

and hoped

and known;

Yet how rich is my condition

God and Christ are still my own!

Let the world despise and leave me

They have left my Savior

too;

Human hearts and looks deceive me;

Thou art not

like man

untrue;

And

while Thou shalt smile upon me

God of wisdom

love

and might

Foes may hate

and friends disown me;

Show Thy face

and all is bright.

Man may trouble and distress me

’Twill but drive me to Thy breast;

Life with trials hard may press me

Christ will bring me sweeter rest.

O ’tis not in grief to harm me

While Thy love is left to me;

O ’twere not in joy to charm me

Were that joy unmixed with Thee.

Haste then on from grace to glory

Armed by faith and winged by prayer;

God’s eternal day’s before thee

God’s own hand shall guide thee there.

Soon shall close thy earthly mission

Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days

Hope shall change to glad fruition

Faith to sight

and prayer to praise.