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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
From the life of J. N. Darby, we may see what a truly consecrated person he was. He was greatly used of the Lord in the last century, many thousands being helped spiritually through him. Even in his old age he was still walking a straight path with the Lord. He could very well have had fame and position, but he did not take them. At a certain time in his old age he went to work in Italy and spent a night in a very plain and lowly inn. He was exhausted, and he bowed his head between his hands and sang softly: "Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee…" Even in this condition he had no murmuring, no regrets; he could joyfully sing this hymn to the Lord. I was really touched when I came to this point in reading his life story. The fact that he could preserve the result of relinquishing his future right to the end moved me. Although he was old, his consecration was not old; it was still as fresh as it was in the beginning.
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This hymn has touched me so much.It has encouraged me to pick up my cross daily to follow the Lord Jesus although I am not certain I can do what He's called me to do .Since the Lord called me, although I do not know which way Iam going with this calling, this hymn has giving me what I require to go on with the Ministry.I have been forsaken,rejected and beaten my not so Pentecostal executive Church I attended.Keep the good work up