ANY MINUTE

Time marches on

We’re just along for the ride.

The length of our trip

Is for God to decide.

It’s not how long we’re aboard

This planet called Earth

It’s how we use our time here

That determines our worth.

God has a plan

For each of our lives

The choices we make

Will be our success or demise.

What is your focus?

How do you live?

Do you love or you hate?

Do you take or you give?

 

Is your life ruled

By ambition and sin?

Has selfishness created

The mess that you’re in?

Do you wander through life

With no aim or direction?

Do you rebel

When it’s time for correction?

Have you lived your life

To serve the Lord?

Are heavens’ promises

To be your reward?

What if today

Most of your time disappeared

And your years turned to days

Have you persevered?

What would the things

You value and do

Say to the world

And reveal about you?

Would your priorities change

In your time that remained?

Would you search for more

Than just to be entertained?

Would the thought of death

Being so near

All of a sudden

Create doubt and fear?

Where will I be

When my life comes to an end?

Will there be time

To repent and amend?

Is Heaven or hell

To be my fate?

I pray Oh God

That it’s not too late.

Focus on God’s work

Claim Jesus as savior

Change your life

Through your heart and behavior.

There’s only one price

For the debt of your sin.

Alone you loose

With Jesus you win.

Alone before God

Your debt of sin is eternal

The place you will go

Will be infernal.

With Jesus there

Your sin will be covered

Eternity with God

Will be your future discovered.

If all of these questions

Have caused you to think

Realize every moment

We stand on the brink

What if your life stopped

Without time for reflection?

Where would you go

When you faced God’s inspection?

You can change your life

Invite Jesus in it.

Your last stop on earth

Could be any minute.

By William C. Scheel II

          (Bill)       (Shale)

November 3, 2011