Soul, What Return Has God, Thy Savior

Soul

what re­turn has God

thy Sav­ior

For all He gives thee day by day?

Oh

hast thou in thy gift a fa­vor

That can de­light and please Him?—Say!

The best of of­fer­ings He re­quires:

Thy heart it is that He de­sires.

Give un­to God thy heart’s af­fect­ion;

Who else can claim thee as His own?

Should Sa­tan hold thee in sub­ject­ion?

With him but pangs of hell are known.

To Thee alone

O Lord di­vine

My heart and all I now re­sign.

Accept the gift which Thou re­quir­est

My heart and soul

O gra­cious God

The first-fruits Thou so much de­sir­est

For which Thy Son paid with His blood.

To Thee I will­ing­ly as­sign

My heart

dear Lord

for it is Thine.

Whom should I give my heart’s af­fect­ion

But Thee

who gav­est Thine to faith?

Thy fer­vent love is my pro­tect­ion;

Lord

Thou hast loved me un­to death.

My heart with Thine shall ev­er be

One heart through­out eter­ni­ty.