Life After Birth

 

We work so hard to learn so much

And soon forget what we knew

We seek to know and yet lose touch

With what is real and what is true

 

So quickly it all slips away

So quickly it is lost

And when we come to the end of life

We find life unequal to such a cost

 

This is the world's wisdom

this is its fruit and way

This is contrary to who we are

This is a place where we cannot stay

Walk in faith in the fact that He knows You

Walk in faith in God's mighty acts

Walk in faith in the unseen promise

With God promises are eternal fact.

 

For Jesus dwells- vibrant and well

In us he is alive

This is our only hope of glory

And this shall be our drive

 

To know Him in His fulness

And to make him known to men

He is the beginning of our days

not just the reward at its end

 

This is the world's wisdom

this is its fruit and way

This is contrary to who we are

This is a place where we cannot stay

Walk in faith in the fact that He knows You

Walk in faith in God's mighty acts

Walk in faith in the unseen promise

With God promises are eternal fact.

 

June 25, 1993

Anthony Foster

Copyright 1993 Anthony Foster