1.     One thing that contents me: Jesus, here, You own me!

For all here is horror, increasing pain and woe!

What more might come, we cannot know!

               CHORUS

But this one thing I do;

Jesus! Looking unto You,

I press toward the mark,

Despite the rising dark;

But this one thing I do:

Jesus! Looking unto You,

I run that I may obtain You.

2.One thing that revives me: How with care You lead me !

All things though conspire, to make me here despair,

I’m hid in You, so can I care?

3.One thing I despair, that I e’er seek after,

Is that I may know You, behold Your glorious face

On nothing else I’ll turn my gaze.

4.One thing that I most need, and I now with You plead

A sure double portion, Lord, grant me of Your pow’r

To stand through coming darksome hour.

5.One thing soon will come true: Changed like You we’ll see You

On this we have laid hold, our hope steadfast and sure

Against that day, Lord, make us pure.