Let me take you to a chamber, dear,
Where life's last breath will soon be near,
And as you lay there, weak and low,
Your thoughts will turn, don't you know?
To actions, big and small, you've done,
With pride you thought them second to none,
But now, as death approaches near,
Their worth, a different story to hear.
The money made, with such great care,
With cleverness, beyond compare,
But now as life begins to fade,
Its value, a mere shadow shade.
The greatest deeds, now seem so small,
As death casts its shadow, over all,
And pride, now turns to bitter shame,
For wasting life, on paltry game.
The bubbles burst, the pretense exposed,
As the mind reflects on what was chose,
And you, as mad, will then appear,
For spending life, on things so dear.
So take heed, dear soul, before it's late,
And ponder on what truly rates,
For at death's door, you will come to know,
The true worth of what you did bestow.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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