What Things Are They?
By Allan Thomasson

What things are they, of which we speak?
They are strong things, for some are weak,
As we once were, ere we met Him
Who died for us now free from sin.

‘Wherefore art thou?’, we hear them say,
As they go on their sinful way,
Not hearing, as the Bible speaks,
To their weak heart, which writhes, and seeks

The love of God (but they don’t know,
That He’s the One Who loves them so;
And though we tell them day by day,
They still insist they’ll go their way).

‘There is a way that seems right to men’,
And that is to ignore their sin.
When judgment comes, they all will see
That it shall lie as falls the tree:

And all their sin they will recall.
‘Too late, too late!’ for it is all
Again remembered, judgment comes,
And with no mercy, here’s the sum

The everlasting lake of fire,
Where death can only be desired,
Though everlasting evermore
They have no hope, for all is o’er.

Men, take this opportunity
Which God now gives to you and me;
Believe in Christ, He died for you,
That where He is, there you’ll be, too

In that new heav’n and new earth,
Believe in Him, and have ‘new birth’,
Then you’ll be judged a different way,
For evermore, eternal day

With Christ and God, and all the saved,
Because salvation our God gave
Is yours for ever, evermore,
Faith is the key, and Christ, the Door.

And when the wicked go their way
Into that everlasting ‘day’,
They may see us beyond the sky,
And then they’ll know the reason why:

Where will they go? What will they do?
They are not here with me, and you!
Then, ‘Quoth the raven ‘evermore’;
Alas, they’re on that other shore!’

II Corinthians 6:2: 2) “(For He saith, ‘I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured (comforted, consoled) thee: behold, now is the time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)"

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