Tuesday 19 February 2008

Christ is all - yes, all in all!

Song 489 - Salvation Army Song Book:
I bring to thee my heart to fill

I bring to thee my heart to fill;
I feel how weak I am, but still
To thee for help I call.
In joy or grief, to live or die,
For earth or Heaven, this is my cry,
Be thou my all in all.

Chorus
Christ is all, yes, all in all.
My Christ is all in all.

2.Around me in the world I see
No joy that turns my soul from thee;
Its honors fade and fall;But with thee,
though I mount the cross,
I count it gain to suffer loss,
For thou art all in all.

3.I've little strength to call my own,
And what I've done, before thy throne
I here confess, is small;
But on thy strength. O God, I lean,
And through the blood that makes me clean,
Thou art my all in all.

4.No tempest can my courage shake,
My love from thee no pain can take,
No fear my heart appall;
And where I cannot see I'll trust,
For then I know thou surely must
Be still my all in all.

Herbert Howard Booth (1862-1926) (verses),
W.H. Williams (chorus)

"What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ"

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