? When my heart is lonely, discouraged, or melancholy, the truths of the great hymns of the past speak peace to my soul.
“Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken” by Henry Francis Lyte
- Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee.
- Destitute, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall be.
- Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known.
- Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still mine own.
- Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my Savior, too.
- Human hearts and looks deceive me; Thou art not, like them, 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.
- Go, then, earthly fame and treasure! Come, disaster, scorn and pain!
- In Thy service, pain is pleasure; with Thy favor, loss is gain.
- I have called Thee, “Abba, Father”; I have set my heart on Thee:
- Storms may howl, and clouds may gather, all must work for good to me.
- Man may trouble and distress me, ’twill but drive me to Thy breast.
- Life with trials hard may press me; heaven will bring me sweeter rest.
- Oh, ’tis not in grief to harm me while Thy love is left to me;
- Oh, ’twere not in joy to charm me, were that joy unmixed with Thee.
- Take, my soul, thy full salvation; rise o’er sin, and fear, and care;
- Joy to find in every station something still to do or bear:
- Think what Spirit dwells within thee; what a Father’s smile is thine;
- What a Savior died to win thee, child of heaven, shouldst thou repine?
- Haste then on from grace to glory, armed by faith, and winged by prayer,
- Heaven’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 soon change to glad fruition, faith to sight, and prayer to praise.