Since one hundred percent obedient
Is what our Exemplar had to be,
Making our own terms with God
Will never be allowed you and me.
Life shows us this.
Suffering almost always does.
But by whatever way we come
To learn to say (and mean)
"Do with me what You wish,
For You, Father, know best."
Only then do we know real joy,
Feel abiding peace of mind,
Experience what Jesus taught and knew --
That our loving Father longs to see
All His children absolutely blest.
Day-by-day
obedience to God
is the Christ Jesus way.
