I Don't Know (Song for the Quakers)

I don’t know what I should do with my life
I don’t know if I should mar-ry me a wife
Or be single

I opened up my Bible and listened real hard
I listened and ah listened ‘til I grew real tahred
An’ I don’t know

(chorus:)
I listened and I read
But all it ever said
Was “boy, whatever you’re doin’ with your life
Do it to the Lord and you can do it right.”

Seems scripture alone can’t come alongside
Seems scripture just don’t help me decide
What I should be

(chorus:)
I listened and I read
But all it ever said
Was “boy, whatever you’re doin’ with your life
Do it to the Lord and you can do it right.”

(2nd chorus:)
I guess I need a friend
Who can tell me more than
Just “boy, whatever you’re doin’ with your life
Do it to the Lord and you can do it right.”

Who can ah ask tuh show me the right way
Who but the Spirit o’ God can show me today
And say more than

Just “boy, whatever you’re doin’ with your life
Do it to the Lord and you can do it right.”

Escalator

Climbing up a down escalator
Eventually you will make it
Just before you meet your undertaker
Live in hope now

Climbing up a down escalator
Is this really how God made it
Always going to be holy later
Feel okay now?

Climbing up a down escalator
Just as you die, you will make it
No-one told you 'bout the elevator
Going up now?


Gradually getting better
Little by little you lose your fetters
One day you'll be dead
And then
Only then
Will you be truly alive
No hope to thrive
In this life
Hah. Wait until you're dead

A "Hell"ish Inconsistency

Often, we think it a very grievous offense against God when someone speaks lightly of hell. One may say, "to hell with that idea," expressing their disgust, for example, and we would count it to him as blasphemy.

However, why do we not think it a very grievous offense against God when someone speaks lightly of heaven? Should one say "that's positively heavenly," expressing their delight, we think it to be no offense at all, and yet they have treated God's authority with respect to eternal destiny no less lightly than if they had used "hell" in their dialogue.

If someone says "Oh hell!" because they are frustrated, we would condemn them for using "bad language." But if someone says "Good heavens!" because they are surprised, we think nothing of it.

How can we so slight the good things of God, as to care not how or what people ascribe to the blessed state, and yet concern ourselves greatly with people's ascriptions of the state of the damned? Do we really truly believe that God is not concerned equally with His authority and glory and rightful attribution with respect to both sides of His office as eternal judge and arbiter?

This inconsistency is not right. We should either count expressions on both sides as equally harmless, or as equally serious offenses. We cannot count them harmless, for it is indeed a serious thing to usurp God’s authority; we must therefore guard our tongues (and our friends’ tongues) carefully, so that we speak without offense to God.