Let me love and not be requited
Let me love and not be requited
| Let me love and not be requited. Let me serve and not be rewarded. Let me labor and not be remembered. Let me suffer and not be regarded. |
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| Let me pour wine, while I drink not. Let me break bread, while I keep not, Pour my life out that others be blessèd, Be in suff'ring that they be contented. |
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| None to pity me or care for me, None to praise me or to console me. I would rather be desolate, wretched, Lonely, friendless, and wrongly treated. |
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| With my blood and tears pay the price to gain the crown, Suffer loss that I might a pilgrim's life live out, For, Lord, this is how You lived Your life when You walked on this earthly sphere, Gladly bore all loss that those who drew near Could be freed from all suffering and fear. |
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| I know not how far the future lies ahead. On this path of no retreating I am led. So, Lord, let me now learn from Your perfect pattern, Suff'ring wrong, no resentment in return. |
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| May You in this difficult, tedious day, All my tears shed in secret wipe away; Learning You are my only solacement, And let my life for others' joy be spent. |
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Cagayan De Oro City, Mis. Or., Philippines
PTL...the Lord should be our pattern day by day! May the the Lord have mercy on us to live a life without reasonisgs.
Auckland, New Zealand
I enjoyed "On this path of no retreating I am led." After spending 6 months in the FTT, I went back to work for the break. Now I find that my colleague who was also my good friend since university now lives a completely different life to me. We could have chosen to live the wealthy life they do, but we have been gloriously wrecked! Even if we take that path we would not be happy. We want to live for the Lord's testimony. This is a path of no retreating. Once, by His mercy, we've been captured by this vision there is no retreating. We are no longer able to live in a vain way again. Praise the Lord.
Costa Mesa
Lord Jesus, I love You. May I live in a way that You have lived. You are my only pattern.
Cheyenne, WY, United States
Someone handed me a piece of paper 20 years ago. It was a nice poem then...this lyric is touching and supplying my very inner being today!
Leeds, United Kingdom
A sister shared this hymn with me today. I read it originally in Chinese. It just so touched my heart. I usually find the cross very heavy but things impossible with men are really possible for God.
Bangkok, Thailand
I really like this song, the only thing I am confuse is that there is a song that is officially from Watchman Nee. Maybe this is the new version. But I like the older version = =.
I will sing this song for the gospel and young people's meeting this week. I would use the older version lyrics.
Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Just imagine how sweet are the church life, if all the saints choose this way, and together as the Body of Christ express Him abundantly. Oh Lord, our lives aren't ours. It's Yours. And our path should exactly is Your path, not ours.
Crescent City, CA, United States
What a pattern for living! If all believers on the earth had this living, the unbelievers would see the glory of God: the love of God, expressed in the face of Jesus Christ, through multitudes of redeemed and transformed people who were one new man, Jesus, on the earth. This would be the answer to Jesus' prayer in John 17:21-23 that we all would be one in the Father's glory, that the world may believe.
Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines
I really love this hymn. It really touches me. Amen!!! We serve the Lord without asking...
Lord, please let me love!