Consecration

We are His by many ties and rights;
Yet far too few recognize His Lordship:
Though willing enough to accept Him as Savior;
We seem to hesitate to make Him King.
Here, we forget, God has exalted Him
To be Prince, as well as Savior:
And the Divine order is not to be reversed:
Consecration is indispensable to blessedness.
I pray thee, lift Him onto thy throne of life;
All things will flow into harmony and peace.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God,
And all things shall be given unto you:
So shall His Light break onto thy path,
As the flare of sunlight that brightens the forest floor.
Yea, "thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall
Thy moon withdraw herself, but the Lord shall be
Unto thee an Everlasting Light, and the day
Of thy mourning shall be ended.