GUEST OR RESIDENT
If you open the door and let Christ in He will come as a courteous guest. He will take the space that you give to him And will leave you all the rest. If you crowd him out of your largest room And give him a corner small, If you scarcely remember that he is there And speak of him not at all, Ah, then, he may grieve when he sees your mind By the cares of the world oppressed; When your feet have strayed and your soul is faint And your heart by grief oppressed; But he cannot comfort and lift and guide And help as he longs to do — Where he sits apart in your house of life — For you have not asked him to. Oh! Make him the master of all you have, The lord of your heart and soul, Yield all yourself for his dwelling place And let him take the whole. He will do…
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