Choose Thou For Me

I dare not choose my lot;

I would not if I might;

Choose Thou for me, my God,

So shall I walk aright.

The kingdom that I seek

Is Thine; so let the way

That leads to it be Thine,

Else surely I might stray.

Take Thou my cup, and it

With joy or sorrow fill;

As best to Thee may seem,

Choose Thou my good and ill.

Choose Thou for me my friends,

My sickness or my health;

Choose Thou my cares for me,

My poverty or wealth.

Not mine--not mine the choice,

In things or great or small;

Be Thou my Guide, my Strength,

My Wisdom and my All!

-Horatius Bonar

"For even Christ pleased not himself..."

Romans 15:3