The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#391

391. Why do we waste on trifling cares

1 Why do we 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 us from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?
Shall troubled conscience give us pain?
And all these please unite in vain?

3 Not so our eyes will always view
Those objects which we 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 care
That life which thy compassion spares.

Text Information

• First Line: Why do we waste on trifling cares
• Author: Philip Doddridge
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: The Sinner: Warning and Invitation
• Notes: Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: BERA
• Composer: John E. Gould
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: E♭ Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: 215, 108, or 136.