1. If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
Were my life worth living for a day?
Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort
In the things that soon must pass away?
If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
Would my gain be worth the lifelong strife?
Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing
For a moment with a Christ-filled life?
2. Had I wealth and love in fullest measure,
And a name revered both far and near,
Yet no hope beyond, no harbor waiting,
Where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer;
If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
Who endured the cross and died for me,
Could then all the world afford a refuge,
Whither, in my anguish, I might flee?
3. O what emptiness!—without the Savior
’Mid the sins and sorrows here below!
And eternity, how dark without Him!
Only night and tears and endless woe!
What, though I might live without the Savior,
When I come to die, how would it be?
O to face the valley’s gloom without Him!
And without Him all eternity!
4. O the joy of having all in Jesus!
What a balm the broken heart to heal!
Ne’er a sin so great, but He’ll forgive it,
Nor a sorrow that He does not feel!
If I have but Jesus, only Jesus,
Nothing else in all the world beside—
O then everything is mine in Jesus;
For my needs and more He will provide.

If I Gained The World, But Lost The Savior (w/ David Hanson)

Simple voice memos 🎶

2025:
- reunion w/ titus (pt.4) ✅
- songs dave wrote (w/ peter) ✅
- old recordings w trndywndy ✅
- YP songs w/ Tony
- singapore/taiwan trip
- hs conference songs (the good land)
- children songs (pt.3)

Note by note, line by line, hymn by hymn — Jehovah becomes my strength and my song!

"...singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord"
Ephesians 5:19

If I Gained The World, But Lost The Savior (w/ David Hanson)

William Jeng