JESUS DID IT ALL!

There's not one thing that I can do,
No work — great or small —
To obtain salvation for myself.
Jesus did it all!

My own good works will not avail.
'Tis on Him that I must call.
Of myself I can but fail.
Jesus did it all!

My pain and suffering are of no avail.
They are but fruits of Adam's fall.
When it comes to suffering for my sins,
Jesus did it all!

The tears I've shed, the sorrows borne
Will have no effect at all.
When it comes to bearing burdens,
Jesus did it all!

Yes, Jesus did it all!
He bore my sin and shame.
The only Way that I can come to God
Is through His matchless Name.

So remember, friend, that works won't do.
It's on Jesus we must call,
For only His blood can take us through.
Jesus did it ALL!


a. franklin staples

October 16, 1993

Copyright © 1993 by A. Franklin Staples

NOTE: I awakened this morning thinking of my father's sudden death on January 30, 1977, on his way home from church, and of his being just as suddenly ushered into the presence of his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, not because he had lived a good life or because he had been a deacon or a Sunday School Superintendent or a good husband, father, and grandfather, for he was all of those things while here on earth, nor because he had been in church on that Sunday morning but simply because he had turned his life over to that same Lord Jesus and trusted in His death on the cross and His shed blood for his salvation. Jesus did it ALL!