More of Christ

What would I give for that pearl of great price Whose value transcends every prize?

How can I be a living  sacrifice When He owns everything that is mine?

Every step and every breath Are given by God’s providence

But blessings can verily lead to my death If I seek for them as my recompense

Possessions will fade away bye and bye They’ll all be consumed in time’s fires

But all summed together cannot satisfy All my deepest  needs and  desires

All my successes and all I produce Like wood hay and stubble shall burn

Possessions can become like a noose For eternal life  you can’t earn

All of my blessings and gain Come down from the Father of lights

Every good perfect gift I will fain If it diverts from heavenly sights

Now let it all be sacrificed,  If it will get me more of Christ.

I count as loss and as decay and dearth All that this dark world affords

Because of the surpassing, glorious worth  of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.

That I may gain Jesus Christ, and His cross His praises will stay on my tongue 

For His sake alone I’ve suffered the loss  of all things and count them as dung 

The present light sufferings I reckon Aren’t worthy to be compared

With the glorious future that beckons Our hearts to be truly prepared

And so we will look to that glory Which  in us shall soon be revealed

But now God is writing our story  Down here on this world’s  battlefield…

All of my blessings and gain Come down from the Father of lights

Every good perfect gift I will fain If it diverts from heavenly sights

Now let it all be sacrificed,  If it will get me more of Christ.

Now let it all be sacrificed,  If it will get me more of Christ.

Now let it all be sacrificed,  If it will get me more of Christ.

Romans 8:18; Philippians 3:8

Anthony Foster

April 12, 2022