What is the Use?

I got a mega-reality-jolt as I lined up the calendars of years flying by!

Reminding me of this verse!

James 4:14

What is your life? 

You are a mist that appears for a little while 

and then vanishes.

What is the use of passing years

If at their end we find

When its last moment disappears

We are still no more kind

What is the use of each year’s cast

Fastened to ‘how time flies’

If when its final day has passed

We still are no more wise

What use is time’s swift no return

Gifted in day-to-day

If  love's lessons we ought to learn

Have not taught us to pray

What is the use of good intent

Of resolution's dare

If we are, at the old year’s end

No better than we were

What is the use, when looking back

With sentimental heart

We blush to see that we still lack

What we did at the start?  

What is the use of  all we chase 

Like a red, rubber ball

If God's goodness, mercy and grace

Have not changed us at all

© Janet Martin

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Eph.5:15-21

See then that you walk [e]circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

  16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

17Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 

18And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; 

but be filled with the Spirit, 

19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

 singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

20giving thanks always for all things 

to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

21submitting to one another in the fear of [f]God.