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Friday, December 30, 2022

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; 
19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
20giving thanks always for all things 
21submitting to one another in the fear of [f]God.




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