169. Most Surely It Is Not So Hard

1. Most surely it is not so hard
To God one’s life to give;
Just yield your all to Christ the Lord
And to Him only live.

2. Then one is neither slave nor lord,
But just a happy child;
More blest, as one learns to regard
The more a Lord so mild.

3. In quiet and humility,
Unasked, one serves Him here;
Just as in its own time, a tree
Will bloom and fruit will bear.

4. One think not of his labors thus,
As of some dreaded tasks;
The Lord has ever done in us
What He of each one asks.

5. One gladly yields to His good care
In everything while here;
Is happy always, everywhere,
As long as God is near.

6. So blest is the believer here,
So rich and so care-free: -
And who thus is not blesséd here,
He nevermore will be!