My Sweet Sixteen

Hello all my readers! Today is my sweet sixteen! I just wanted to post a poem that I wrote for my birthday today.

My Sweet Sixteen

My life is a vapor soon ready to pass
My days are fleeting just like the withering grass
The Lord has given me another year to celebrate what He has done
Of how He’s given His wondrous grace when I deserved none
This day is very special, but yet just like everyday
God has been longsuffering and kind in every way
I can recall what He showed me to flee
I will always remember what love He has shown to me
That day He took me and showed me my sin
My filthiness and wretchedness He showed to me then
“There is none that does good” I read in God’s Word
But that was something I had not even heard
I thought I was good enough to please a God so holy
But I didn’t know He required every deed that I thought was so lowly
From every lie to every thought was seen before Him
There was nothing before His eyes that was even dim
I’ve broken every commandment and now I see my fate
I was headed to hell where my judgment awaits
But look, it’s the cross where my Savior was bruised
Jesus hung on a cross where He was accused
He was accused by God for my sins and unrighteous deeds
Yet He had not broken God’s Laws nor one of His creeds
He was perfect and holy in every way
But was crushed for my sins and my fine He did pay
The wrath of God that was due to no one but me
Was put on God’s Son for everyone to see
He cried, “It is finished” with His final breath
That cry was a testament to what can happen to me after death
He then rose from the grave victorious on the third day
Christ defeated death and hell and made the Only Way
Next He showed me what I must do to me saved
I must turn from my sins and trust solely in Him, from whom salvation was paved
So repent and trust Him is what I did do
I was then given a new heart and new desires too
Now I’m forgiven and can go to heaven because of what Jesus did
My filthy unrighteous deeds from before Him He rid
I now praise Him and thank Him for His beautiful love
That is why I celebrate another year given from above
Jesus is the only reason I celebrate another day
Oh, how I love Him for paying my penalty and making a way
A question I will leave to end this at last
Where will you spend eternity when your time on earth has passed?

In Christ,
~Kirsten~