To Love Like You
Oh to love like You love
To forsake this earthly crown
And serve the lowest and the least
Simply for my Father’s great renown
Oh to love like You love
To stand and intercede
For the orphaned and forgotten ones
With not one concerned for their need
Oh to love like You love
To humbly wash men’s filthy feet
On hands and knees to live
Ruled by true humility
Oh to love like You love
To treat the poorest man as king
To serve the drunken beggar as if royalty
That You might lift him up on eagles wings
Oh to love like You love
To be so selfless and so meek
To consider all as better than myself
Even if I’m perceived as weak
Oh to love like You love
To give up all for my foes
To love those who spit in my face
That to them Your grace might be bestowed
Oh to love like You love
To count my life as nothing to me
And bear my splintery cross
That others might truly see
Oh to love like You love
How I long for it to be
But I can’t, it is unattainable
Unless You live Your life through me
– by Nick Thompson –
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