Life Has No Expiry Date

 

 

Life has no expiry date

But yours and mine do

And whether you believe it or not

Here’s what is true.

 

Your life and my life

Will come to a certain end

And neither you nor I can tell

If it’s around the next bend.

 

We do know for sure

Our life-spring is loosely wound

And when it unwinds to its limit

That will be our final round.

 

The final round in this life

But there’ll be a next to come,

I will say a little more on that life

Before this poem is done.

 

Another title we will have

When we lie in state,

Whatever our name had been

Will be preceded by “The late”.

 

The late Stewart Russell

Is what my new handle will be,

And when it is written thenceforth,

That is what you will see,

 

It is critical to understand

That life will eternally go on

But the life principle as issued here,

That will definitely be gone.

 

 

The Giver of all life is God

And He is life’s eternal source

But God orders not your life and mine

By His omnipotent force.

 

We treat to life as we please

As is demonstrated everyday

But we will be held accountable

By God who holds life sway.

 

Life is God’s to give

And life is God’s to take

But we often blame Him for the latter

Regarding our loved ones’ fate.

 

 

 

We quote from the book of Job

As though God said these words

But in the light of our poor choosing

I refuse to concur.

 

For God so loved, He gave

And what really did He give?

God gave to us His precious Son

That we should not die but live.

 

We could live forever

In the promised world to come

For there is no expiry date

In the heavenly kingdom.

 

The one that believes in Jesus

Will never ever die,

Though he be interred in the earth

It’s not there he resides.

 

For the life that is in the believer

There is no expiry date,

For the God who cannot die or lie

Has sealed the believer’s fate.

 

While you and I will die

It is impossible for Life to die

Except in the case of Jesus Christ

Who millions still deny.

 

 

But the Lord of life

Suspended life only for a time

To demonstrate to all and sundry

He is the only one of that kind.

 

Life has no expiry date

But yours and mine do

And whether you believe it or not,

This is definitely true.

 

Stewart Russell © December 13, 2022