THE YEARS

Tell me man what have you learned

In the years since your childhood

Are dreams fulfilled or lie in shreds

Have all the lessons been understood

 As a little boy you suffered much

A tender heart was sorely pained

Now the years have quickly gone

Tell me of knowledge that you gained

You give your heart to Him above

Jesus was your childhood friend

Did you walk with Him each day

Of all the years that He did send

Yes I have learned so many things

That memories never fade away

Of pain and tears and childhood lost

Terrible price of it paid every day

To love you must give of your heart

But sometimes it will bring you pain

To work for riches or please oneself

No happiness from either will you gain

I have learned to be wise

To judge if friends are really true

Who to trust to share my heart

For friends like these are very few

But most of all I have learned

In happiness and falling tears

The One I trusted long ago

Has been with me through all the years

I have learned more of His love

This wondrous Saviour who held a boy

Who wrapped His arms round him tigh

Giving to him His peace and joy

Dreams are fleeting don’t really matter

Of not His will dashed can be

To learn His word is knowledge gained

 Knowing from sin I am set free

Lessons taught some hard to learn

Some of them never understood

But I never question for I know

He uses them for my eternal good

Many things yes learned in my living

In sunshine mountain and valley tears

Boy to man, and growing older

Soon death will call and no more years

Hear you then of my knowledge

Gained by tribulation hopes and fears

That you put your hand in that of Jesus

Walk with Him down through your years

Colin Moffett