My Hope

MY HOPE T’is just as the apostles testified Most miserable I will be of men If my hope in Christ ends here on earth To this I also testify thus; I looked around to see the world So many pleasures, so many gains So many titles and heights to attain These and more I found in the world. But then I sought to see the duration Of these many many pleasures And see what these titles could grant me And I was disappointed; it was a waste. The pleasures were never satisfying The titles in their peak were not gratifying It was really a waste of time For these distracted me from the Truth of Life. And then I sought eternity The pleasures that lasts everlastingly The titles eternally gratifying And on the way I met the Lord The One who inhabits eternity. He said to me ‘Come to Me Come fellowship in My love and suffering And have a full life in Me In this life and hereafter’ So I forsook all my worldly pleasures And cast my achievements behind me And followed humbly and obediently, Him who alone gives life eternally. So my hope in Him is this That though I be the least of men As long as I follow Him as a Lamb The last shall surely be the first And I’ll share in the wonderment Of His life, glory and joy eternal