What Things Will Matter?

What things will matter
on the day I behold
the Face of the One
Who planned my life from of old?

Will the endless tasks
and the plans that I make,
the many duties of each day,
be all for vanity’s sake?

I pondered and I worried
and tried without rest
to fill up every day
with the things I thought best.

But still, the nagging thought
my conscience plagued,
How could I be sure
my plans were the best to be laid?

Then His whisper came softly
upon my ear,
“Abide in me,” were the words
of my Savior dear.

Alas to me
the way was clear;
I could live in full joy
by keeping my Savior near.

Each day might be wrapped
in a new design
and look completely different
than any plan of mine.

But the promise of much fruit
would come to bear in my life
by walking with my Savior
and making Him my delight!



Inspired by:

“He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit…Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit.”
John 15:5,8

“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.”
Psalm 16:11