"Not Your Own"

Listen from:
“Not your own!” to Him ye owe,
All your life and all your love;
Live, that ye His praise may show,
Who is yet all praise above.
Let every day and every hour,
Let every gift and every power,
Be consecrated to Him alone,
To Him who claimed you for His
own.
“Lord Jesus, make Thyself to me,
A living, bright Reality,
More present to faith’s vision keen
Than any outward object seen,
More dear, more intimately nigh,
Than e’en the sweetest earthly tie.”
ML 11/05/1961