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Warnings
Don't all of today's
familiar
Health warnings about,
What to eat or quickly
select and
Swiftly drink,
Leave you and me with
little or
No doubt,
About what not to sample.
Or leave little time
To pause and think.
Many of today's warnings
About tomorrow,
Can and do arrive for
many
Much too late.
And when they do arrive
usher in
Much painful sorrow.
But that's life, dear
friend,
That's your fate!
God's announced solemn
warning,
Perhaps given to you
dear friend
This very morning,
Do you know offers its
own eternal
Health warning,
However sad and however
demurring.
Yet so many people in
purple
Crowded hospital rooms,
Refuse to admit that
when death
Quickly looms,
In life's hurried frenetic
Daily storms,
They are never really
ready or prepared for
When that grim reaper
looms.
Does
not the Bible confirm:
"Watch
therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come" (Matthew 24:42)
God
warns all who care to hear His voice:
"It
is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27)
So unlike any Government
health notice,
You have, dear friend,
simply no choice!
SO
Alcohol Warnings.
Promiscuous Sex Warnings
Health Warnings.
Drug Abuse Warnings.
And any other familiar
friendly Warning
REMEMBER
If death should pay you
a timely visit
Perhaps this very night,
Where will your eternal
soul
Finally alight?
Perhaps in the darkest
regions of Hell?
Or offer pleasing respite,
Forever
in God's enduring affectionate all seeing sight!
IN CONCLUSION
The
choice is always
Yours,
is it not?
Remember
in the after life yet to come
There
is never a second shot!
I
first started drafting this stanza in a
Crowded
hospital waiting room. For many of the
Patients
in that room the consultant's news
Will
be mixed. For some it will be the
First
time that a shadow has appeared on
A
lung, or a lump has shown up in the throat.
Or
perhaps nothing at all. Hospital
Waiting
rooms are an ideal location
To
leave Bible tracts. Most people do not
Bring
anything to read so it is an excellent
Opportunity
to evangelise, and let's face it,
These
people are going nowhere for
At
least an hour. So a timely Bible tract
Might
perhaps make them think. I hope so.
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