“Some people want to live within the sound of chapel bells, but I want to run a mission a yard from the gates of hell.”
- John Wesley
Feet
I heard a song as a girl
In Sunday School long ago
“Oh be careful little feet”
Watching wherever you go.
I have tried to live my life
Not going where I shouldn’t
When others asked me to sin
I declared that I wouldn’t.
Now the Bible says the Church
Will triumph over all Hell
Seeing armies of God
Many an enemy fell.
If we keep ourselves from sin
We have gained one soul for Him
“Well done”, our Lord will say
And to joy we’ll enter in.
The defense is what I need
To save just myself from sin
But the offense is needed
A lost, dying world to win.
Against the gates of Christ’s church
Hell’s stronghold cannot prevail
Let’s march to its very gates
God’s army never shall fail!
Snatching souls from the very brink
Of destruction and of death
Is of much more profit then
Sitting and drawing our breath.
For when our feet are busy in
Bringing wounded souls to Him
They won’t have the slightest urge
To carry us into sin.