The Old Building
The old place was so dusty and so cluttered from the past
With broken things no one could use that should have been out cast
With articles from history that told what once had been
The purpose of this very place that I was standing in
But now was just a derelict of buildings from the day
When people walked and talked a lot and even stopped to pray
When life held more a meaning for the future they might see
And people lived by standards that reflected purity
That could not be commanded and cannot be bought or sold
When children learned obedience to do what they were told
To help them grow in character to learn the ways of God
To give them true direction in the path that they must trod
But like that poor old building that was standing from the past
That once wise generation failed to share the things that last
Like never ending promises we find within God's Word
That must be lived and thought upon for others to be heard
And like that poor old building as the love for life has gone
When we who are the keepers of God's message have gone wrong
And look to those around us more than to the One Who died
We lose the very meaning for which He was crucified
For we just like that building miss the reason we are here
And with the passing seasons find our joy replaced with tears
From times and opportunities we just let slip away
And that no longer seem to come to help us find the Way
But like the master builder who envisions something new
That this old broken building might still have a chance to do
We too though bruised and broken might still have a place to be
Recorded as a work of art for all the world to see
Reflecting what our Builder had designed from long ago
A building where the lost of earth might have a place to go
To learn about the Healer and the Saviour of mankind
Who makes the lame to walk again and brings sight to the blind
And Who is set on coming to restore us bright and new
To be with Him forever doing what the angels do
Exploring how to love Him Whom the world today can't see
Unless they see His love restored this day in you and me
2 Corinthians 5:17-21; 1 Corinthians 3:8-11; 2 Timothy 2:15
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