Eternal Life. Death has no hold on You <br />for a sinless life You lived Faithful and True. <br />When time shall cease and worlds no longer be <br />You shall live on throughout eternity. <br /> <br />This Life has appeared and was seen by men. <br />The Son of God has come and has given <br />understanding to know the One Who is true <br />for He Who was with the Father is You. <br /> <br />I have been to Your cross and seen You there <br />and cried out to You in my great despair. <br />'Forgive me Lord, I don't know what to do, ' <br />you heard me cry as I confessed to You. <br /> <br />'It is finished, ' You cried upon the tree <br />as Your earthly life You gave up for me. <br />You exchanged my life for an endless one <br />and Eternal Life in me has now begun. <br /> <br />Reaching out to me in great love You bear <br />my awful sins upon Your shoulders there. <br />Such healing I received at Calvary <br />and there Eternal Life began for me. <br /> <br />Death has been swallowed up in victory <br />no longer the grave has a hold on me. <br />Though once hell held captive and domineered <br />no longer its portals by me are feared. <br /> <br />No more shall life be three score years and ten <br />or limits placed upon the years of men. <br />For Christ came to this earth that blessèd day <br />and died to take the sting of death away. <br /> <br />Oh how can I thank You for Your mercy. <br />Nobody else has shown such love to me. <br />Please help me Lord here on this earth to show <br />by my life the debt of love that I owe. <br /> <br />(additional background information is provided in the Poem's story box below)<br /><br />Roy Allen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/today-eternal-life/
