It shows the singer earnestly striving to do good by hammering home lessons in responsibility and self-motivation.

Like the great Master, in whose steps he so earnestly strove to follow, he "went about doing good."

Are you earnestly striving after it?

Yet Haller strove earnestly to love others.

To ask a question, foretells that you will earnestly strive for truth and be successful.

While driving, the young man strove earnestly to impress us both with the importance of an unremitting effort, made by all concerned, to find his living bride-to-be.

We are always earnestly striving toward some future elevated state.

She strove now very earnestly to see where her duty lay.

Bitterly I repent my faults and will strive earnestly for amendment.

Gramps would strive earnestly to secure his master's fondness, being as faithful as he could.