*Pastor’s Note: A.B. Simpson was a very well respected Canadian preacher, theologian and author who lived from December 15, 1843 to October 29, 1919. My prayer is that you will be blessed and inspired by his poetry as much as I am.

THEREFORE CHOOSE

“I Have set before you
Life and death,
Blessing and cursing;
Therefore choose life
That both thou and thy seed may live”
(Deuteronomy 30:19).

There is a strange and solemn power
That we are ever using,
For God has given to every man
The sovereign right of choosing,
And souls are lost, and souls are won
By choosing or refusing;
Therefore choose.

When Satan’s fierce and fiery darts
Around our souls are flying,
When earth with her alluring smiles
Our heart is fondly plying,
The only way to hold our ground,
The hosts of hell defying,
Is to choose.

Eternal life does not consist
In some strange art of feeling;
There is a choice that faith must make,
The great transaction sealing.
O sinner, come and at His feet
In full surrender kneeling,
Jesus choose.

Perhaps this is thy crisis hour,
On all thy future telling;
Poor foolish heart, perhaps to-day
Thou art thy birthright selling.
Oh stop, while all the love of heaven
Is still thy heart impelling,
Stop and choose!

From Songs of the Spirit: Poetry by A. B. Simpson. Public Domain