About the Song…

Take the world but give me Jesus

This striking him was written by the amazing Fanny Crosby in the eighteen hundreds. At the age of 6 weeks, old Fanny Crosby lost her eyesight by a mistake from a careless physician during an illness. She never remembered being able to see, yet at the age of eight, her very first poem expressed exactly how she felt about her misfortune. “It has been the motto of my life,” she said. “O what a happy soul am I! Although I cannot see. I am resolved that in this world. Contented I will be.”

Indeed much of our unhappiness in life comes from our discontent. We are unhappy about our station in life, the way we look, our income, we feel alone and friendless, we feel that we have not A change to our true ambition. We feel that we are not afforded the respect and admiration and Accolades that we deserve in life. We want more money. We want to be more attractive. We want others to like us. And no matter how much money or beauty or admiration we attained to it never fills the hollow hole inside of our hearts as discontent is a bottomless pit That is never satisfied.

Instead, we find our true happiness when we look away from self. We were created to be a part of a sinless and unselfish  Universe. Each creature looking to the well-being of another. There is nothing in this natural earth that is self-serving except for the selfish heart of man. Our original created purpose was to give love. and as we give we receive it. Once sin entered into the world we became only desirous of receiving love. But love begets love, and when we don’t give love we do not receive it either. And so discontentment grows as we implode into our own unfulfilled desires. Yet the antidote is so simple.

Look up. Look away from self and toward our Heavenly home and loving Creator who will restore in us his image. Reach outward. Look away from your own necessity to Ward another. Alleviate pain and suffering where you can. Give of your time and of yourself and your means to those less fortunate. An encouraging word, a smile costs nothing. But to the hurting, so they are the balm that can save a life  Pressed down and crushed by this world’s harshness and merciless cruelty.

And as you come in touch with suffering Humanity, true suffering that is much more than you can bear, The blessings that you are surrounded with will become apparent and gratitude will grow in your heart in place of discontent. And as you come in contact with the suffering of humanity your heart will yearn for your heavenly home. Everything that you once wanted will become worthless as you yearn for the one thing that will help The Emptiness inside and the pain around. Take the world, give me Jesus.

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“Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.”
Revelation 1:7