Beyond What’s In It for Me

I’ve measured life in open hands,

Yet weighed it by my own demands.

I’ve asked of God, “What will You give?”

As if my gain defines my live.

But deeper truth begins to rise,

A call to break self-centered ties.

To lift my gaze from fleeting gain,

To walk where self must bear no claim.

What love is this that bids me see,

A greater good than what’s for me?

A kingdom built on sacrifice,

Where losing self becomes the price.

To serve, to give, to bend my pride,

To trust His heart and step aside.

To find my joy in others’ grace,

To stand in last and lowly place.

Lord, teach me how to sow and spend,

To love with nothing to defend.

To pour my life, my rights, my plea,

Past shallow what’s in it for me.

For in that death my soul will find

A freedom unconfined by mind.

A harvest born of selfless seed,

A life that’s more than mine in deed.