Pain is Pleasure

Hymns are awesome.

I would like to put another song on my blog. This song also spoke straight to my heart. The difference is that it came from God, to comfort and inspire me. Not from the culture of today, which made me only feel sorry for myself. (kind of like that last song I put on here).

It's called "Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken" by Henry Francis Lyte & Bill Moore
Please read it all.

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.

Let the world despise and leave me,

They have left my Savior, too.

Human hearts and looks deceive me;

O while though dost smile upon me,

God of wisdom, love, and might,

Foes may hate and friends disown me,

Show thy face and all is bright.

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.

Go, then, earthly fame and treasure,

Come disaster, scorn and pain

In they 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.

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 what Jesus dies to win thee,

child of heaven, canst thou repine?

Hast 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.

I think this song pretty much sums up how a Christian's life should look on earth. I really think that discovering how to trust Jesus more will change my life. There's so much freedom in giving up, especially when you give up to a God who wants only your best.