Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken

1. 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 my own

2. 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

O while Thou dost smile upon me

God of wisdom, love, and might

Foes may hate and friends disown me

Show Thy face and all is bright.

3. 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

4. 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 stayed my heart on Thee

Storms may howl, and clouds may gather;

All must work for good to me.

5. Soul, then know 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

Think what Father’s smiles are thine

Think that Jesus died to win thee

Child of heaven, canst thou repine

6. Haste thee on from grace to glory

Armed by faith, and winged by prayer

Heaven’s eternal days before thee

God’s own hand shall guide us there

Soon shall close thy earthly mission

Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days

Hope shall change to glad fruition

Faith to sight, and prayer to praise