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Thread #14353 Message #3829100
Posted By: GUEST
27-Dec-16 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: Old Hymns?
Subject: RE: Old Hymns?
Here are the words to "If I could live over" that someone wanted.
If I could live over the days that are past,
I'd live them for Jesus, the first to the last.
I'd turn from the evil and live for the right
And take all the sunshine he giveth for night.
The past is a picture transgressions have scarred,
Of sowing and reaping the life that is hard.
How bitter the dregs of the cup of my sin,
If only I'd listened and let Jesus in.
If I could live over the days that are gone,
I'd listen to mother and flee from the wrong.
I'd heed the old Bible that points me the way,
and kneel by my bedside and fervently pray.
The words she first taught me were simple and sweet,
the prayers of my childhood I still can repeat.
But now I have spurned them and sin took its toll,
And left me a pauper in body and soul.
If I could live over the life that I've lost,
How different the outcome, how different the cost.
How lighter the burden, how brighter the day,
How less of the wages of sin I would pay.
Though I can't live over the things that are gone,
I know there is pardon for all of my wrong.
And peace I will find in the life he has planned
In the beautiful land of beginning again.