If I gained the world

- If I gained the world but lost the Saviour,
- were my life worth living for a day?
- Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort
- in the things that soon must pass away?
- If I gained the world, but lost the Saviour,
- would my gain be worth the life-long strife?
- Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing
- for a moment with a Christ-filled life?
- Had I wealth and love in fullest measure,
- and a name revered both far and near,
- yet no hope beyond, no harbour waiting
- where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer -
- if I gained the world, but lost the Saviour,
- who endured the cross and died for me,
- could then all the world afford a refuge,
- whither in my anguish I might flee?
- O what emptiness without the Saviour
- mid the sins and sorrows here below!
- And eternity, how dark without Him,
- only night and tears and endless woe!
- What though I might live without the Saviour,
- when I come to die, how would it be?
- O to face the valley‟s gloom without Him!
- And without Him all eternity!
- O the joy of having all in Jesus!
- What a balm the broken heart to heal!
- Ne‟er a sin so great but He‟ll forgive it,
- nor a sorrow that He does not feel!
- If I have but Jesus, only Jesus,
- nothing else in all the world beside,
- O then everything is mine in Jesus -
- for my needs and more He will provide
Album: English Hymns, Artist: Anna Olander tr, Language: English, Viewed: 606 times