The Deeper Life

Into the depths of Christ I plunge
  What else is there but to be purged of sin
    Those faults that hinder His life in me
      Must all be surrendered to His life within

To much of me to little of Him
  So into the depths of His Spirit I’ll swim
    Deeper than I’ve ever been
      For the shallows purge not carnality

I need to find that part I miss
  The promise of complete fullness
    Laying aside every remnant of pride
      To find that place in Him to abide

Although In Him I have found true rest
  Power over sin and His love and grace
    Yet more of Him and less of me
      Is still ahead, so I’ll press on

Until the day He calls me home
  There’s more to gain in His highest call
    Than is offered by this world’s store
      With all its fortune, with all its fame

Onward I press, no turning back
  Lot’s wife’s pillar of salt I taste
    To remind me of what’s in store
      For those who doubt and turn back for more

Of the old life’s pleasures
  Rather than the cross’ shame
    The broad road’s lined with quick
       And easy pleasure to numb sin’s shame

Once I walked down that that easy way
  My friends so many it was easy to say
    Yes to pleasure and no to the cross
      So many on the broad road to share in one’s loss

The loss of things eternally blessed
  In heaven protected from the moth and the rust
    That corrupts all of this word’s gain
      Every day is for earning in the heavenly place

Raise up, oh you sons of God
  Who are double minded in thought
    And loose more day by day
      Of the glorious riches in Christ to be gained

When dying with Him
  To a selfish life full of shame
    And finding true value in His cross
      Where to live is Christ and to die is gain!