Living for Jesus
Living for Jesus, a life that is
true,
Striving to please Him in all that I do;
Yielding allegiance, glad hearted and
free,
This is the pathway of blessing for me.
O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give
myself to Thee,
For Thou, in Thy atonement, didst give Thyself for
me.
I own no other Master, my heart shall be Thy
throne.
My life I give, henceforth to live, O Christ, for Thee
alone.
Living for Jesus Who died in my place,
Bearing on
Calvary my sin and disgrace;
Such love constrains me to answer His call,
Follow His leading
and give Him my all.
Living for Jesus, wherever I am,
Doing each duty
in His holy Name;
Willing to suffer affliction and loss,
Deeming each trial a part of my
cross.
Living for Jesus through earth�s little
while,
My dearest treasure, the light of His smile;
Seeking the lost ones He died to
redeem,
Bringing the weary to find rest in Him.
BIBLE
REFERENCE:
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that
the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy;
for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought
with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
And what agreement hath the temple of God with
idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk
in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:16-18
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you
to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. and ye shall dwell in the
land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Ezekiel 36:27-28
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from
the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal
bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the
flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds
of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of
God.
Romans 8:11-14
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under
the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you
in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
If we live
in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:18-25
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the
Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
dwelleth in him, and he in God.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth
in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have
boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1 John 4:13-17
For I know that this shall turn to my salvation
through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, According to my earnest
expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as
always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body,
whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:19-21
Thomas Obediah Chisholm -
Lyrics
1866-1960
Born: July 29, 1866, Franklin, Kentucky.
Died: February 29, 1960, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Buried: St. Thomas Whitemarsh Episcopal Church,
Whitemarsh,
Pennsylvania.
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Carl Harold Lowden - Composer
1883-1963
Born: October 12, 1883, Burlington, New Jersey.
Died: February 27, 1963, Collingswood, New Jersey.
Buried: Pennsauken, New Jersey.
HYMN HISTORY:
The composer of this gospel hymn, C. Harold Lowden, has
left the following account regarding the origin of this popular consecration hymn:
In 1915, I wrote a �light and
summary� type of gospel song entitled : The Sunsine Song� for children�s services. It became
quite popular, and many pastors wrote to me that the music should be saved, and a more general
setting of words wedded to it.
In 1917, I came across a copy of it in my files, and played it over. The rhythm and tempo
suggested the words �Living for Jesus.� The idea came to me that a deep consecration setting
of words would be most appropriate.
After much thought and prayer I decided to ask T. O. Chisholm to write the words. I mailed him
a copy of the music and suggested the title and the type of refrain which I felt it deserved.
In a day or so, Mr. Chisholm returned it to me, saying he didn�t have the slightest idea as to
the method used in writing words to music. Immediately, I sent the material back to him,
telling him I believed God had led me to select him,
and suggesting that he permit God to write the poem. Within a couple of weeks he had completed
the writing of the words, just as they appear in the song today. More than a million copies
have been sold, in song sheet form. It appeared in scores of hymnbooks of all denominations,
and has been translated into more than fifteen languages and dialects.
The author, Thomas Obediah Chisholm, was born
in a humble log cabin in Franklin, Kentucky, on July 29, 1866. After an early career as
schoolteacher and editor of the weekly newspaper, The Franklin Favorite, he was converted
to Christ at the age of twenty-seven under the ministry of Dr. Henry Clay Morrison,
founder of Asbury College and Theological Seminary. In 1903, Chisholm was ordained to the
Methodist ministry and pastored a Methodist Church at Scottsville, Kentucky, for a period of time.
When his health began to fail, Thomas Chisholm moved his family to Winona Lake, Indiana, and
became an insurance salesman and continued this work when he later moved to Vineland, New Jersey, in
1916.
Writing, however, was always Mr. Chisholm�s first love, and he wrote more than 1,200 poems, of which
800 were published in such periodicals as the Sunday School Times, Moody Monthly, Alliance Weekly,
and others. A number of Mr. Chisholm�s poems have become well-known hymn texts: �Great Is Thy
Faithfulness,� �He Was Wounded Our Transgressions,� �Christ Is Risen From the Dead,� �O to be Like
Thee!�
and �Trust in the Lord With All Your Heart.�
Thomas O. Chisholm describes his purpose for writing as follows:
I have sought to be true to the
Word, and to avoid flippant and catchy titles and treatment. I have greatly desired that each
hymn or poem might have some definite message to the hearts for whom it was written.
Mr. Chisholm concluded a long and fruitful
ministry on February 29, 1960, at the Methodist Home for the Aged in Ocean Grove, New
Jersey.
Carl Harold Lowden, the composer, was born on October 12,1883, at Burlington, New Jersey. At
the age of twelve, he sold his first song to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, where later he was
employed. Mr. Lowden taught music for several years at the Bible Institute of Pennsylvania (now the
Philadelphia College of Bible). He also served as the minister of music for the Linden Baptist
Church in Camden,
New Jersey, for twenty-eight years. During another twelve period, Lowden was music editor for
the Evangelical and Reformed Church board (now the United Church of Christ.) Mr. Lowden
composed a number of hymn tunes and edited many songbook collections during his lifetime. His
death occurred on February 27, 1963, at Collingswood, New Jersey.
�Living for Jesus� first
appeared in a hymnal,
in 1917, in a collection titled, Uplifting Songs, compiled by Lowden and Rufus W. Milled and
published by the Heidelberg Press. The tune name �Living� was chosen by Mr. Lowden when the
hymn was selected for inclusion in the 1956 edition of the Baptist Hymnal.
101 Hymn Stories
by Kenneth W. Osbeck |
�Be like a watch! Have an
open face, busy hands, full of good works, pure gold, and well regulated.�
Unknown
�The service we render to others is really the rent we
pay for our room on this earth.�
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
�We can judge a man faithful or
unfaithful only by his works.�
Baruch Spinoza
Dear Brothers and Sisters in
Christ,
The Christian, while in the world, is not to be of the world. He should be distinguished from it in
the great object of his life. To him, �to live,� should be �Christ�. Whether he eats, or
drinks, or whatever he does, he should do all to God's glory. You may lay up treasure; but lay it up
in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, where thieves cannot brake in to steal. You may
strive to be rich; but strive to be �rich in faith� and good works.
You may have pleasure; but when you are merry, sing psalms and make melody in your hearts to the
Lord. In your spirit, as well as in your aim, you should differ from the world. Walking humbly
with your God, always conscious of His presence, delighting in communion with Him, and seeking to
know His will, you will prove that you are of a heavenly race. And you should show yourself to be
separate from the world in your actions.
You must have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Walk
worthy of your high calling and dignity. Remember, you are a child of the King of kings. So, strive
to keep yourself unspotted from the world.