Death comes knocking we know not when,
Some folks wish they could begin again,
But alas only once our life does pass,
And soon is gone like a blade of grass.
As a wispy cloud sailing high above,
Short as the passage of a parting dove,
So is our brief time here on the Earth,
Our years are numbered from our birth.
In God’s Mercy there is time to repent,
We must acknowledge dear Son He sent,
For weeks days hours transpire so fast,
We fail to see when final day is cast.
“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free . . . If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” John 8:31-32, 36, KJV
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,” Luke 4:18, KJV
“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.” Romans 2:28-29, KJV
“Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.” Romans 7:4, KJV
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father . . . Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” Romans 8:15, 21, KJV
“And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:” Galatians 2:4, KJV
“But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?” Galatians 4:9, KJV
“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.” Galatians 4:21-26, KJV
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1, KJV
I don’t drink coffee, and I don’t drink tea,
I don’t drink water, that is from the sea.
Now there’s a good reason, you see I’m old,
So only certain things, my stomach can hold.
Some of you out there, will know what I mean,
I am no longer running, a brand new machine.
It’s got its groans, and it’s got its creaks,
And sometimes, man, it just so really reeks.
I’m not being funny, and I’m not being crude,
I speak the truth, I am really one old dude.
Now you may say, “Oh, it won’t happen to me”,
Just give it years, and you will likewise see.
God gives us each, a certain number of years,
Some days are happy, while others bring tears.
But one of these days, and God surely knows,
The last page comes, and our book will close.
