Laudes Domini ‎#278

278. One Thing needful

1 Why will ye waste on trifling cares
That life which God's compassion spares?
While, in the various range of thought,
The one thing needful is forgot?

2 Shall God invite you from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?
Shall troubled conscience give you pain?
And all these pleas unite in vain?

3 Not so your eyes will always view
Those objects which you now pursue;
Not so will heaven and hell appear,
When death's decisive hour is near.

4 Almighty God! thy grace impart;
Fix deep conviction on each heart:
Nor let us waste on trifling cares
That life which thy compassion spares.

Text Information

• First Line: Why will ye waste on trifling cares
• Title: One Thing needful
• Author: Philip Doddridge
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1890
• Topic: The Gospel: Atonement Accepted; Atonement: Accepted; Conscience; Future Punishment; Little Things; Needful, one thing; Pleasures; Repentance
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

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