If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
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 Savior,
Would my gain be worth the lifelong 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 harbor waiting,
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer;
If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
Who endured the cross and died for me,
Could then all the world afford a refuge,
Whither, in my anguish, I might flee?
Oh, what emptiness! without the
Savior ‘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 Savior,
When I come to die, how would it be?
Oh, to face the valley’s gloom without Him!
And without Him all eternity!
Oh, 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
Oh, then everything is mine in Jesus;
For my needs and more He will provide.