No Mere Existence, This!

 Josh Turner's breath-stealing rendition of this song  reminds us to make certain of our salvation!

  

While I was writing this we received awful news; 

the 16 yr. old son of someone my husband knows very well 

was killed this morning in a snowmobile accident!

Please pray for Wayne and Doreen Gingrich and family!

He leaves behind three older brothers.

No mere existence, this; the sacred fount

That grants each day of grace runs full and free

Before the call when all will give account

And who knows when that solemn Then will be

Where bold, cold boast of Unbelief will fail

As it beholds the truth of Satan’s lies

While mysteries of faith will rend the veil

That tortures sight with agonizing ‘whys’

No mere existence, this; no trite tick-tocks

Though they might lull us into apathy

If we ignore the door that death both locks

And flings wide into vast eternity

The Giver of the spring that fills Time’s This

That spills into a new Today of Grace

Is not willing that any soul should miss

The gift He came to give to human race

Bethlehem’s babe became Calvary’s Lamb

To satisfy the wrath of God; God’s son

Became once and for all, pardon’s I AM

And saves us from the wrath that is to come

No mere existence this; each sacred breath

Draws us nearer to Soul’s Forevermore

No mere existence this; where body’s death

Closes and opens a most awesome Door

© Janet Martin