What you say today is hard I am challenged and not sure I’m able To gain eternal life and answer your call To give up all things and to follow To leave behind and to give away all
The laws of our ancestors I follow Your words and works I have heard and seen Your teachings I have tried hard to live You know that oft and again I have failed And yet I know you gently forgive
On life’s path I have followed your way Though I am frail and weak of spirit Your commands have been my guide And I have traversed my valleys of sin In your love-light I have longed to abide
Things and passions of this world I hold Yet I must leave all of it now to follow What I treasure must all stay behind To receive you fully into my life To open up my heart and my mind
What you ask is my deepest struggle To give up all things which I have and I own To follow your shown path to salvation To free myself of all treasures of here That I may be with you forever in heaven
One hundred times more I will receive If I leave here all that ties me down And embrace your will for me To achieve the hope of eternal life Then, there with you forever I will be
Dear Jesus, Help me to empty myself Of earthly things that hold me down Guide me as I struggle to follow Help me empty myself of all that pulls me away That I may become a clean and open vessel To be filled with your grace and love this day