As our life moves on and we grow older,
And aches and pains begin to take a toll,
We worry so much less about our flesh,
And more about the destiny of our soul.
In our youth we are sometimes dishonest,
Our sins and mistakes we may try to hide,
But not so in the Light of God’s presence,
In yonder land that is on the Other Side.
All shall be revealed and nothing hidden,
But in God’s Grace and Love we will abide,
For He will remember our sins no longer,
In the land that is on the Other Side.
I am on a journey to a far distant land,
As I hold on tight to the Master’s Hand.
The road may be rocky with many a test,
But I remain safe and secure in His rest.
Satan beckons me to take some other way,
Demons too, but I ignore what they say.
With eyes set fast on that yonder shore,
Only by God’s Grace can I hope to endure.
The world offers its own deceptive path,
But beware, it only leads to God’s Wrath,
There’s but one way leading to the Light,
Only through Jesus e escape the night.
They say we’re the greatest generation,
Which has ever lived on Planet Earth,
Yet I am forced to ponder and question,
And really wonder about our true worth.
We have made great strides in science,
And we are exploring even Outer Space,
But we really must stop now and consider,
What we are all doing to our own place.
We abort unborn babies by the millions,
And we pollute the sea, land and sky,
We war and create nukes by the 1000s,
So that the whole world can easily die.
You work so hard and you work all day,
You sweat your brow just to get your pay.
Even still you never seem to get ahead,
Slaving away until the day you’re dead.
It’s a crappy world where rich men rule,
Outside of their club you’re just a tool.
The game is fixed they break our backs,
We’re not really free there’s another tax.
There is an answer but not of this Earth,
The Lord loves us and He sees our worth.
Only in His Kingdom are we truly free,
Jesus Christ himself paid for our liberty.
Some fine day we’ll pass through the Door,
This life’s aches and pains will be no more.
There are those who say it just cannot be,
But by faith what we’ve hoped for, we shall see.
Then all our troubles will seem so small,
Perhaps we won’t even remember them at all.
In the Light of God’s Kingdom we’ll rest at last,
Everything will be new, and our old lives past.
We will be so thankful, yes, each and every one,
For the great Sacrifice made by God’s own Son.
So keep hanging on, and please don’t despair,
In God’s chosen time, you’ll find yourself there.
“But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.” Genesis 9:4-5, KJV
“And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.” Leviticus 17:10-14, KJV
“Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.” Leviticus 19:26, KJV
“Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.” Deuteronomy 12:23, KJV
“And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood. Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.” 1 Samuel 14:32-33, KJV
“Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood . . . For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.” Acts 15:19-20, 28-29, KJV
“As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.” Acts 21:25, KJV
