COULD you each drop of water count
in ocean, lake and sea,
And to each one add millions more,
how great the sum would be.
Then count the blades of grass that grow,
the leaves on every tree,
The sands upon the ocean's shore,
the sum would greater be.
Then count the miles that lie between
the earth and every star,
How this would make the total swell
to numbers greater far.
Then count the many millions who
upon this earth have lived,
And all the words that they have said,
who could the total give?
Count blossoms from the trees that blow,
and drops of morning dew,
And all the atoms in the air,
what is the sum, think you?
Then count the moments that have fled
since time at first begun,
And all the moments yet to come
before time will be done.
To this vast total, ages add, then many ages more,
"Forever" goes beyond them all—
no end, for evermore.
Redeemed sinners saved by grace
will spend forever where
The Lord Himself will be their joy;
I ask, will you be there?
The lost will spend forever in
hell's dreary, dark despair,
O, let me say, dear friend, be wise,
don't spend forever there!
Trust in the Lord while now you may,
plead now His precious blood,
And then forever you will be
with Christ, the Son of God.