The One Who Turned Away
Lord, were those meetings wasted,
Those times I spent in prayer,
The earnest preparation,
The love and help and care?
She seemed so close to heaven,
And though I fail, I know,
I really tried to love her
And show the way to go.
But still she wasn’t willing
To leave the path of sin
So she could follow Jesus
And feel His work within.
Oh, I can almost hear You,
“I too had many leave;
They would not turn toward heaven
And savingly believe.
“Your part is not to save them
But just to share the news
Of free and full salvation
Which some will still refuse.”
If Jesus Christ was willing
To teach a faithless throng
To win a few who trusted
I’ll serve my whole life long.
Lord, let Your Word I gave her
Re-echo in her mind
Until she turns to Jesus
Who heals the lost and blind.
Please let me meet this dear one
In heaven’s home above
And hear the glorious story
Of how she found Your love.
Christina Joy Hommes
“From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” John 6:66-69
“This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. … For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; … I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.” 2 Timothy 1:15; 4:10a; 4:7-8
