Just Yesterday

This year has flown with rapid pace

It was as though the world were in a race

December is now staring us right in the face,

To what ending are we in such haste?

It was just yesterday this year began

Like a bullet from a gun the days just ran,

Days to weeks, weeks to months, this year

Draws to an end as Christmas appears.

Could this be the shortening of the days

As in the Gospel of Matthew and Mark?

Or is it because there is so much to do

And time passes before we are through?

I don’t know for sure but I must confess

That life is so fast pace it gives us stress,

Twenty-four seven seems too short at best

And some appear to have so little rest.

It was just yesterday we review the Old

And there in church we celebrated the New,

And here again the year is at an end

Such a short time and another complete bend.

And so yet again the ritual beckons

Independence, Christmas, Old and New

Another year will pass in the quickest of time

A record to be broken by the year in preview.

Just yesterday, today and tomorrow

Rolled together in the time we have borrowed

So much to do and so little time

As the time shortens the steeper the climb.

Let me leave this word with you before I go

A reminder from the Bible we all should know,

I alluded to it just moments ago

Right in the Gospels where the word says so.

Matthew Twenty-four, Twenty-two to be exact

If God’s word says it then it’s a fact,

Or you may resort to Mark thirteen-twenty

In the company of two that’s witnesses aplenty.

  

Both of these passages allude to this fact

The days will be shortened for the elect’s sake

And except it were so no flesh would survive

Just picture an oven in which you bake your cake.

Some opined this came to pass in AD seventy

Others say it’s a long way off we need not worry,

Like I said I do not know for sure so I am prepared

Which ever it is my redemption draws near.

Just yesterday ought to be a stark reminder

That the passage of time is nearing completion,

It is time that we factor God into our equation

This mathematics should occupy our attention.

Just yesterday quickly becomes just yesteryear

And before you know it tomorrow’s year appears

Who knows whether another day we will see?

Time to get right with God; His salvation is free.

For Jesus came to seek and to save the lost

To save the elect was an infinite cost

Calvary was earmarked even before time began

That Christ should die for all the damned.

Just yesterday two thousand yeas ago

He hung from Golgotha’s cross for you and me,

Accept Jesus today as your Saviour and Lord

And he will be yours eternally.

Stewart Russell © 2016