Better Off A Beggar

Chorus
You can have my money, you can have my gold
You can have all my wealth, I don’t want it for myself
What good to gain the world and lose my soul?
I’m better off a beggar with a hope
Verse 1
Remember Lazarus begging just for table scraps
Living out a life of misery
But when death claimed him heaven’s mercy saved him
He went from a pauper to a king
The rich man who ignored him faced the flames below
He’d chosen fame and fortune with no thought for his soul
Verse 2
A rich young ruler certain of approval
Bragging of everything he’d done
Was shattered finding Jesus requiring
To give all he had away and come
He left the Saviour heavy because he couldn’t part
With an earthly treasure he held high in his heart