Christ My Song - 472

Thou must deny thyself - Deny thyself
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

Deny thyself.

1. Thou must deny thyself,
and take up now thy cross,
choosing the narrow gate and way,
counting all gain but loss. PDF - Midi

2. Lay every weight aside,
and, for the appointed race,
gird up thy loins: press on and up,
quickening thy tardy pace.

3. Watch and be sober still,
ye who have known the way;
not sons of midnight or of gloom,
but of the light and day.

4. No truce with vanity,
or this world's idle show;
lust of the flesh and eye, or pride
of life, thou must not know.

5. Fix ye your hearts where he,
your Lord, hath his abode;
for ye are dead, and now your life
is hid with Christ in God.

6. Yes, dead with Christ are ye,
and risen with him each one;
seated with him at God's right hand,
upon the heavenly throne.

7. Dead to the world then be,
its gaiety and pride;
to its vain pomp and beauty be
for ever crucified.

8. Him whom ye love it smote,
the Christ that died for you;
love not the world that hated him,
the world thy Lord that slew.

9. Bright is the world to come,
it will you well repay;
so shall ye be true sons of God,
and children of the day.

Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope III, 1878, 85-86.