The Question
What is the very purpose of your being here my friend
When all things for a season live and then they reach their end
And come not like some people teach again and then again
To be another creature or another soul in sin
For many are the teachings and the ways they'd have us think
These people who deny our God and write their thoughts in ink
Upon a page of parchment or on linen fine and dry
To capture our attention and to captivate the eye
Some teach that in our passing that our spirit is released
To pass into another form that soon will be deceased
And from one to another we continue thus to go
To be another person in whose form we do not know
While others teach that heaven is the place we do ascend
Forever to be present in a life that does not end
While watching those we knew before suffer the pains of life
Enduring daily challenges that often end in strife
And still some teach that once you're gone you're gone eternally
No more a thought or whisper throughout all eternity
A vapor that just lived once with no real impact at all
Not bound by our morality that's suffered since the fall
So where is there an answer with a monocle on truth
A single focused precept for the aged and the youth
That we might truly comprehend what happens when we're gone
From what we call the present will there be another dawn
Well if we trust the Bible the unerring word of God
That tells the story of the One Who walked where we must trod
Who made us with a purpose that will last eternally
Then everything we need to know is there for us to see
That while we're with the living ours is to embrace the cross
Where Jesus died to pay the Price to save the ones He lost
To evil lust and envy greed and malice of all kind
To bring again His perfect grace that purifies the mind
To have us know Him deeply through the study of His Word
Wherein the Truth we're looking for can be discerned and heard
Where now you have the question find the answer if you will
For God is waiting there my friend to share His answer still
Isaiah 58:1-4; John 8:36-40; 14:6
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