Take Time

Who, at the Hinge of Old Year's end to New Year's start doesn't not contemplate Time?

Farewell, Old Year.

...you do not know what tomorrow will bring. 

What is your life? 

For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

James 4:14

How will we spend time's coins?

What will we have to show for it;

this mist that appears for a little while,

these days of grass?

1 Peter 1:24-25

For, 

All people are like grass,

and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

25but the word of the Lord endures forever.” c

And this is the word that was preached to you.

Take time; this thing that transports us from cradle to the silent grave 

It wears the cares and noisy fuss of we abreast its teeming wave 

its momentum of moments metes morn’s virgin streets to you and I 

And gathers as it grants, the fetes that compose Past’s collective sigh 

Take time; Soul’s Sacred Rubicon whereon there is no turning back 

Where the first breath sets us upon an all-important, one-way track 

Where present-sprees and centuries are not so very far apart 

And everybody ought to seize what each dawn frees, with awestruck heart 

Take time to contemplate the Gate that waits to swing but once, for all 

Where nothing else can compensate when it comes to the Gospel Call 

And no one can afford to scoff and cater to indifference 

When it comes to the subject of Offering and Deliverance 

Take time to get down on your knees and make peace with the God of grace 

For who knows when this life will cease and we will meet Him face to face 

Where those who believe will receive faith’s glorious inheritance 

But those who rejected God’s pleas, to suffer Choice’s consequence 

Take time; its transitory isle nobody outsmarts or outlives 

Our mist appears a little while then vanishes to He who gives 

And what would be the point of it, but for the opportunity 

Of a lifetime, to inherit what everyone must wait to see 

© Janet Martin 

I heard a minister make the comment that 

if everyone while on earth was given but a glimpse of either Heaven or hell,

hell would be empty; so awesome Heaven, so awful hell

Before this year ends, if you have not done so,

 please do not put off what tomorrow does not promise to give;

opportunity to make your peace with God

and receive the gift of eternal life

as you repent and believe.

John 3:16

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins

 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

It Is No Secret What God Can Do

(It's powerful to listen to the words of this song as if it is written

for each of us, personally!)