If I owned the world, but not 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 owned the world, but not the Savior,
Would the 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 home beyond, no harbor waiting
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer,
If I owned the world, but not 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 I have EVERYTHING in Jesus!
For my needs and more He will provide.
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."