When Loss is Gain
As I look back upon my life
The times of joy and times of strife
How could I cry for any loss?
Once I have gazed upon Thy Cross
How could I ever dare complain?
About life’s sorrows, tears and pains
When You so freely took my shame
Upon Yourself removed my blame
Because from sin You set me free
I now thy willing servant be
So, pierce my heart-declare me thine
And purge all selfish thought of mine
If all I have, You choose to take
That Glory bring for your namesake
Allow me gaze upon Thy Face
Thy eyes of love, thy smile of Grace
I do not know what life may bring
Prepare my heart to always sing
A Song of joy, abounding praise
Amidst the billows storms may raise
For you my precious, Lord and King
Will lift me high on eagle’s wing
To soar above this world below
And cast aside the grief and woe
Philippians 3: 7-10
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death
Just to know you Lord is to gain the greatest treasure. All else, is loss.
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