His Way With Thee
Would you live for Jesus, and be always pure
and good?
Would you walk with Him within the narrow road?
Would you have Him bear your burden,
carry all your load?
Let Him have His way with thee.
His power can make you what you ought to be;
His
blood can cleanse your heart and make you free;
His love can fill your soul, and you will
see
�Twas best for Him to have His way with thee.
Would you have Him make you free, and follow at His
call?
Would you know the peace that comes by giving all?
Would you have Him save you, so that
you can never fall?
Let Him have His way with thee.
Would you in His kingdom find a place of constant
rest?
Would you prove Him true in providential test?
Would you in His service labor always
at your best?
Let Him have His way with thee.
BIBLE
REFERENCE:
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you,
and keep you from evil.
2 Thessalonians 3:3
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:5
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and
I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling,
and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only
wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Jude 1:24-25
Cyrus Silvester Nusbaum -
Lyrics & Composer
1861-1937
Born: July 27, 1861, Middlebury, Indiana.
Died: December 27, 1937, Wichita, Kansas.
Buried: Kingman, Kansas.
HYMN HISTORY:
Cyrus Silvester Nusbaum began his ministry in the
southwest at the a Methodist Church in 1886. He went on to become one of the most outstanding
evangelists of his time. However, this hymn was born during a time of deep discouragement, following
Mr. Nusbaum�s first year of ministry. He gives the following account:
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I had spent my first year in
pastoral work. Having been appointed to serve as a pastor in one of the poorest circuits in our
district, I had struggled hard during the year to take care of the seven preaching places and
congregations. It had been a most difficult task, strenuous and discouraging, and the income
pitifully small. At the end of the conference year, my wife and I gathered our few necessary
belongings, and, with the assistance of one of our members, we arrived at the railroad station
in order to take the train to the place where the conference was to meet that year.
Naturally, we had prayed and hoped that, at the conference, I might be appointed to a better
charge, but when the Bishop read the appointments the last night of the conference, I was named
as pastor of the same old circuit. I was with heavy hearts that we repaired to our lodging place
that night. Mrs. Nusbaum sensibly retired early, but I remained in the little parlor with no one
to disturb me.
I was very unhappy and a spirit of rebellion seemed to possess me. About midnight, I finally
knelt in prayer beside my chair. After some struggle, a deep peace came stealing into my heart.
I told the Lord that I would be willing to let Him have His way with me regardless of the cost.
With that feeling, of surrender to the will of God, came the inspiration for the new song, now
so well-known throughout Christendom.
�His Way With Thee� first appeared in Gospel
Praises, compiled by Kirkpatrick, Hall and Gilmour, 1899. Although Mr. Nusbaum wrote the words and
music for a number of other hymns, this one is the most popular and the only one most commonly used
today.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in
Christ,
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead,
and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Romans 6:13
The hymn "
His way with thee
" main theme is yielding. Everyone is the servant of
the master to whose commands he yields himself. In John Chapter 8 Jesus was speaking in the temple
and He said to those who believed on Him,
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples
indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:31-32
They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were
never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John 8:33
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John 8:34
Jesus was telling them if you continue to sin
habitually you become a servant of sin. The apostle Paul wrote in Romans Chapter 8 that to whom we
yield ourselves to that we will obey
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves
servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 6:16
Jesus told the crowd that they did not understand His
teachings because God was not their Father but in fact the Devil was,
"Why do ye not understand my speech? even because
ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth
in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it."
John 8:43-44
The question we must ask ourselves; What do I yield
myself to, sinful dispositions of my heart, in actions which will lead to death, or to new and
spiritual obedience implanted by regeneration?
In this day and age recycling is a part of
everyday life. So just as junk cars are melted down and recast into new and shiny vehicles, so to
the believer has to become a new creature in Christ Jesus.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17
By accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and
repenting of your sins you can be made free of sin and become a servant unto God.
But now being made free from sin, and become
servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Romans 6:22
We are all servants to the master we
serve.
...But as for me and my house, we will serve the
LORD.
Joshua 24:15