Why will ye waste on trifling cares

Verse 1

Why do we waste on trifling cares That life which God's compassion spares, While in the various range of thought, The one thing needful is forgot?

Verse 2

Shall God invite us from above? Shall Jesus urge his dying love? Shall troubled conscience give us pain? And all these pleas unite in vain?

Verse 3

Not so our eyes will always view Those objects which we now pursue; Not so will heav'n and hell appear, When death's decisive hour is near.

Verse 4

Almighty God, thy grace impart; Fix deep conviction on each heart; Nor let us waste on trifling cares That life in which thy compassion spares.