Jesus, I my Cross have Taken
- Words:
- Henry F. Lyte
- Music:
- Francois H. Barthelemon
Sheet music
- 1Jesus, I my cross have taken,All to leave and follow Thee;Naked, poor, despised, forsaken,Thou, from hence, my all shalt be;Perish ev’ry fond ambition,All I’ve so’t and hoped and known;Yet how rich is my condition,God and heav’n are still my own!
- 2Let the world despise and leave me,They have left my Savior too;Human hearts and looks deceive me,Thou art not, like man, untrue;And, while Thou shalt smile upon me,God of wisdom, love, and might,Foes may hate, and friends may shun me,Show Thy face, and all is bright.
- 3Man may trouble and distress me,‘Twill but drive me to Thy breast;Life with trials hard may press me,Heav’n will bring me sweeter rest.O ‘tis not in grief to harm me,While Thy love is left to me;O ‘twere not in joy to charm me,Were that joy unmixed with Thee.
- 4Know, my soul, Thy full salvation;Rise o’er sin, and fear, and care;Joy to find in ev’ry station,Something still to do or bear.Think what Spirit dwells within thee,What a Father’s smile is thine,What a Savior died to win thee;Child of heav’n, shouldst thou repine.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1825, the words are in 1,391 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.