ARE YOU JUST LOOKING FOR A MANSION?

Are you just looking for a mansion?
Do you long for wealth untold?
Is that perhaps your major reason
For reaching for those Gates of Gold?
Then you'll be sadly disappointed, friend,
When the Lord returns again,
For then all the wealth of Heaven
You will never ever gain.
For a mansion's not the reason
That we should seek the Lord,
And the riches that we're seeking
Are those promised in God's Word;
Not of worldly wealth and glory,
Not of silver nor of gold,
But to live with Christ in glory
And His blessed face behold,
To cast all our crowns before Him,
Our rewards cast at His feet,
Shout the glad song of all the ages
And His blessed name repeat.
Yes, that blessed name of Jesus,
He who died that we might live,
Shed His blood to buy our pardon,
That the Father might forgive.
No, a mansion's not the reason, friend,
That we seek to serve the Lord;
Though He's wealthy beyond measure,
'Tis not gold that's our reward;
Earth's values are not counted
In the Father's house above
Where we'll rest from all our labours
In the light of His great love.

a. franklin staples

March 7, 1995



Copyright © 1995 by A. Franklin Staples