# No Rest

Language: en  
Author: \-RLK\-  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, September/October 2002, Number 5  
Source pages: 13  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/no-rest/>
Original PDF: 2002\-09\-remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, September/October 2002](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2002-09/>)

My soul is not at rest within,  
My heart for action calls,  
For I have seen the chains of sin,  
Have shuddered at its galls\.

The vows of God upon my life,  
Constrain all strength and nerve\.  
His call has pierced me as a knife;  
Him only will I serve\!

The voice of loved ones, freedom, fame,  
Have all grown strangely dim;  
My heartís desireís now informed,  
To fully follow Him\!

He was a man of sorrows, grief  
His footsteps now I trace;  
Dare I search out selfish relief,  
While He has run the race?

But, no\! I too shall fight the fight  
Which He has planned for me\!  
No matter what the cost of right,  
Eíen this my cause shall be:

To tell of all His wondírous love,  
Salvationís call so free\.  
And point souls to my Lord above  
Whoís done so much for me\.

You think it as a sacrifice  
To leave this secure land,  
Forsaking comforts oh, so nice  
And houses which are grand;

But I am thinking of my Lord  
Who left His deity,  
Upon the ground His blood was poured  
Purchased salvation free\.

So someday, in a far\-off land  
My dying eyes Iíll lift,  
To gaze on Africís burning sand,  
My life lay downóa gift\.

Then when on heavenís golden shore  
The natives sing His praise;  
My heart with joy shall swell yet more  
And there thanksgiving raise\!

![Illustration of a person resting in a hammock beneath trees beside a house](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/f53bd262-dbd0-4792-9e75-7f3ccfa520d5-1.jpg>)

**\-RLK\-**