What Good Is All We Say and Do...

Ps.141:2-4Let my prayer be set before You as incense,The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;Keep watch over the door of my lips.Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, ... Ps.19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heartBe acceptable in Your sight,O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Isa.26:3-4You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength. Today's hope-plan-dream includes making salsa!among other things! What good is all we say and do, each hope-plan-dream we bideWhere ebb and flow of morning gold turns blue at eventide Where the suspense of what yet waits is never fully metWhere mercy plunders welkin gates, where man, prone to forget ...who orders our steps, embarks toward what none can seeAn invisible Void that marks time’s swift finality And puts an end to what now wends deftly from here to WhereNone can return from, to amend the said-and-done with care Behooving us to consider the climax of life’s jotAnd ask the question that should stir a very serious thought… What good is all we say and do and love and learn, oh prayWithout devout devotion to He who grants each new day (The clout of Life’s Momentous Lease authors a DividendThat once begun will never cease and none can comprehend) Surely, we ought to pay more earnest heed to what we hearAnd measure every word and deed with chaste and holy fear For we will all appear before the judgement seat of ChristTo give account for what we revered, loved and sacrificed Behold, the faithful saying of truth that will never dim;The good in all we say and do, is possible through Him © Janet Martin Are we not all inclined to cry with Paul?!... 1 Tim.1:14-16And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me,along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.15 16But for this very reason I was shown mercy,so that in me, the worst of sinners,Christ Jesus might display His perfect patienceas an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.…