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The Reformation Herald Online Edition

True Worship

Sleep or Be Saved
Sleep or Be Saved

Some think our actions matter not,

For our salvation has been bought.

It’s true—our works are not a “pass”;

We’re saved by grace, as Jesus taught.

The only route to heav’nly bliss

Is through the Saviour’s own shed blood;

It gains the prize for all who win

’Midst foes attacking as a flood.

But does God see inside our heart?

Does He behold pollution there?

Oh yes, indeed, He knows each thought,

Our every motive is laid bare.

He sees the depth of all our claims;

His omnipresence will not budge.

So thus He says, yes, saved by faith

But of our works He’ll be the Judge.

This world is near its very end,

There’re souls in darkness to be won.

Our actions now are being watched—

Repenting or just having fun?

Passive, lazy we can’t be—

Salvation is not child’s play.

The hour has come to stand as men—

For Jesus, let us seize the day!

All that mental clutter stashed

And all that pile of human pride

Must melt away at Calvary’s cross

As we behold His wounded side.

There’s no more time to sleep on guard;

From slumber we must now awake

To find the wandering souls so lost:

And take the cross, for Jesus’ sake!

—BHM