The Inevitable Result Of Living...

The Inevitable Result Of Living, And Dying, Without Christ

Death like an archer, staunch and true,
That never missed a mark:
At last will send his arrow through.
The stubborn sinner's heart.
And then that stubborn sinner dies,
An angry God to meet:
In vain he then laments, and sighs,
His ruin is complete.
Excluded from eternal life,
In darkness and despair
Without lone single ray of light, 

To cheer him anywhere:
To realize the second death.
Is what he must endure;
And he of all good things bereft
Because he is impure;
The blood of Christ that purifies
The human soul from sin:
And the believer justifies,
Who trusts alone in Him;
On earth he slighted, and refused,
Or put it off till death; 

And thus God's grace, he then refused.
Until of life bereft,
He has himself alone to blame,
That he is suffering so:
It's useless for him to complain,
He's made his bed in woe. 

by Collings