Give Me Jesus

Wanting nothing but Jesus is the starting claim: "You're more than every dream come true," the first verse says, and the things once desired "don't come close to knowing You." The second verse turns personal and intimate, with "Now that I'm Yours and You are mine" and a love spent "looking in Your eyes."

The chorus makes the trade explicit. "Give me Jesus ... and You can have all this world" is followed by the line about silver and gold, naming Him "the treasure that I hold." Bethel Music's recording with Matt Stinton then stretches the last section into a long, looping confession, "You are my one thing," with the leader prompting "Sing it again" while the crowd answers back.

Close to the end comes the most defiant line: "I don't care if they call me crazy." Paul's willingness to count everything loss for knowing Christ in Philippians 3:8 is the nearest scriptural parallel, along with the psalmist's cry in Psalm 73:25 that nothing on earth is desired beside God.