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One of the advantages of                        done for Christ will last.” We know it
                    being brought up in a       well. We have heard it often. Its truth is
                    Christian environment       not debatable. How often have we been
                    and attending the meet-     challenged, in teaching meetings or in
                    ings and gatherings of      conference sessions, to echo the cry of
the local church is the ability to quote, on    Paul the day he was stopped by the Lord
demand, favorite lines, and often entire        and brought into the family. “Lord, what
verses, from some of the well-worn hymn-        wilt thou have me to do” (Acts 9:6)? It
books that guided believers in song. And,       may not be the only translation I use
in all likelihood, you could close your eyes    today, but it is the one that God used in
this instant and start rhyming off a long       my youth to emblazon His Word on my
list of hymns and songs that have been          heart, and that is why it still comes out just
stamped on your memory, like a tattoo on        the way it went in! The truth it conveys is
an arm. “Oh what shall you do with Jesus,       tremendous. The challenge it provides is
the call comes low and sweet!” You could        unsettling. It’s not about what I want. It’s
likely finish it, couldn’t you? This is just a  all about what He wants. He is not only
small part of a wonderful heritage shared       Savior, He is Lord. He is owner. He paid
by so many of us. We are better off for it.     the price, and bought me with His blood.
It was often these questions, asked in song     He redeemed me. I am His, and that will
that challenged us spiritually in our lives.    never change.
What will I do with Jesus? How grateful
we are for everyone who answered the              However, if the earliest questions we
call, and received Him as Lord and Savior.      sang challenged us to seek the Lord while
                                                He could be found, and if the earliest
  And then there were the poems. “Only          challenges we faced soon after salvation
one life, ‘twill soon be past, only what’s      taught us to live for Christ and lay all on
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