After This Life is Eternity

 

Thy presence, gracious Lord, afford

Prepare us to receive Thy Word

Now let Thy voice engage our ear

And faith be mixed with all we hear.


Distracting thoughts and cares remove

And fix our hearts and hopes above

With food divine may we be fed

And satisfied with Living Bread.


To us Thy sacred Word apply

With sovereign power and majesty

May we in faith and godly fear

Rejoice and walk in what we hear.


Father, in us Thy Son reveal

Teach us to know and do Thy will

Thy saving pow’r and love display

And crown Thy Gospel with success.


O bless Thy servant, dearest Lord

While he shall preach Thy blessed Word

O may we hear our Saviour’s voice

And in His precious Name rejoice!


-old Gospel hymn: Doxology 

 

 

AFTER THIS LIFE IS ETERNITY

 

 

This life is not the end.  We all will spend eternity somewhere glorifying God: either glorifying His grace for saving us or glorifying His justice for justly condemning us.  Some of you are already making plans for where you will spend your spring and summer break next year.  Others have spent their lives preparing for how and where they will spend their retirement years.  “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.  For what is your life?  It is even a vapor, that appeared for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14).  Yet we all know we shall die.  But who is making plans for where they will spend eternity?             

 

 -preacher Clay Curtis

 

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