Not where we elect to go

Not where we elect to go

But where Jesus leads the way

There the living waters flow

There our darkness turns to day.

Not our self-appointed task

Will the Lord’s approval win

But the work we did not ask

Finished humbly

just for Him.

Not the prayer we long to plead

When we bend before the Throne

But the touching deeper need

Of the Spirit’s wordless groan.

Not the gift we proudly lay

On His altar will He heed

If our hearts have said Him

“Nay

”

When He whispered

“I have need.”

Thus we die

and dying live

In the heavenlies with the Lord;

Thus we serve

and pray

and give

Christ Himself our great Reward.