Laudes Domini ‎#598

598. One Thing needful

1 Why do we waste on trifling cares
That life which God's compassion spares?
While, in the various range of thought,
'Tis 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 in which thy compassion spares.

Text Information

• First Line: Why will ye waste on trifling cares
• Title: One Thing needful
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1884
• Topic: Atonement: Offered; Conscience; Eternal Punishment; Future Punishment; Invitations; Life: Vanity of; Needful, one thing
• Notes: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: SEASONS
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: A♭ Major