This is the path – I lay it all down
This is the way – I take up my cross
Following You Jesus
Leaving all else
It is no sacrifice
Greater love has no one than this
Laying his life down for a Friend
Receive from me
This greater love
It is no sacrifice
All worldly possessions I have gained
Few though they may be
Valueless now
I leave them behind
It is no sacrifice
Turning away from worldly pleasures
The amusements I once pursued
Vain and worthless
I forsake them all
It is no sacrifice
The life of absolute surrender
It is my chosen pathway now
Yearning to remain
Yielded and broken
It is no sacrifice
Are you ready to give up self to death
I hear the Savior say to me
I lay my life down
Upon the altar
This is my offering
It is no sacrifice
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. Philippians 3:7-11