The Test of Time

“If time was on our side,

There would be no cause to hurry.

Whatever we’ve been putting off,

Would no more be a worry.

“We could dawdle all we want,

And take our good old time,

And just relax, and have some fun,

And bathe ourselves in life sublime.” 

But time’s not on our side.

And, if that is what we’re thinking,

That how we live our lives on earth

Will not send us a sinking,

Then we have been mistaken,

And our thinking is diminished.

For God’s our judge of everything.

His judgments are not finished.

So, don’t be high and mighty,

And think that He’s not watching.

For, God our Savior does not sleep,

He sees the sins you’re hatching.

For, not anything is hidden

From Jesus Christ, our Savior.

He knows our thoughts and all we do

Not surely in His favor.

So, remember what He told us,

If we want to be His foll’wers.

We must die to sin and self each day;

Be, of hardened hearts, His plowers. 

Then, in humble adoration,

We follow Christ our Savior.

We go with Him where’er He leads,

And we thank Him for His favor.

An Original Work / December 18, 2018