Remember Now Your Creator
Scripture Reading: Ecclesiastes 12:1
“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;”
- Remember Now Your Creator:
- When you are young and tender – “in the days of thy youth”
- Before it is too late – “while the evil days (calamities, death) come not” – too late to worship and serve God, too late to live a meaningful life.
- Before you become too hardened – before hardening years come – “nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them” become not interested in spiritual things and not interested in knowing God.
The Four Calls
1 The Spirit came in childhood
And pleaded, “let me in,”
But oh, the door was bolted
By thoughtlessness and sin;
“I am too young,” the child replied,
I will not yield today,
There’s time enough tomorrow,
The Spirit went away.
2 Again he came and pleaded,
In youth’s bright happy hour,
He called but heard no answer,
For lured by Satan’s pow’r,
The youth lay dreaming idly then,
And saying “not today,
Nor till I’ve tried earth’s pleasures,”
The Spirit went away.
3 Again he called in mercy,
In manhood’s vigorous prime,
But still he found no welcome,
The merchant had no time,
No time for true repentance,
No time to think or pray,
And so repulsed and saddened,
The Spirit went away.
4 Once more he called and waited,
The man was old and ill,
He scarcely heard the whisper,
His heart was cold and still;
“Go, leave me, when I need you,
I’ll call for thee,” he cried,
Then sinking on his pillow,
Without a hope, he died.
Source: https://hymnary.org/text/the_spirit_came_in_childhood
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