Someday a universal Last Post/ Last Trump will sound
begging these questions...
To what ending do we labour,
Shoulder burdens, laugh and weep
Keep the faith and love our neighbor
Rise and shine and go to sleep
To what purpose do we reason
Weathering life's highs and lows
Persevering through each season
Bearing one another's woes
To whose command do we cater
Left foot, right foot, on and up
Does the grave or something/One Greater
Drain life's Intangible Cup
To what finish do we struggle?
What good is the bad we bear?
What makes worth earth's toil and trouble?
What makes lucrative its care?
To what Triumph do we rally?
Braving sorrow's bitter sting
What makes bearable the valley
To what Promise can Hope cling?
For what profit do we suffer?
What makes the Prize worth the fight?
What is dark foreboding's buffer?
What defends deferred delight?
What Cause rouses us from slumber?
What fuels faith's Sacred Charge
What use are tears without number?
Is prayer but a drifting barge?
Is joy but what this world offers?
Always death's impending prey?
Is wealth but cold, gold-lined coffers
By ill Fate's stroke borne away?
Or, is God's love, life's ambition?
Is His Promise worth the price?
Is His Reward worth the Mission
His love worth the sacrifice?
Does what-waits-to-be compel us
To trust and be of good cheer
Does the love of God indwell us
Making all the difference here?
Love helps everybody shoulder
Life, as on and up we plod
Love never fails any Soul-dier
Who has put his/her trust in God
Love's Call of Duty is wending
Warriors God-ward, undeterred
To a Beginning, unending
Eye has not seen nor ear heard
Then with valiant, holy fervor
Spirit armed and gospel shod
Fight the good fight like a Soul-dier
Bringing all glory to God
© Janet Martin
1 Cor. 2:9
it is written:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no heart has imagined,
what God has prepared
for those who love Him.”b
2 Tim.2:3-5
You therefore must endure[a] hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life,
that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
5 And also if anyone competes in athletics,
he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
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