You Can't Get There From Here

You Can't Get There From Here

By George Thurlow

 

You think you can earn your way to heaven

Through your own effort, sweat and tears,

But my friend you are mistaken

You can't get there from here.

 

You think your life is good enough,

On your own merits you can stand.

You go to church each Sunday

 You're a hard working honest man.

 

You belong to many civic groups

And all week you perform good deeds.

You're devoted to your family

And the homeless ones you feed.

 It's no doubt you live a good life,

But to God it won't bring you near:

For there is only one way to heaven

And you can't get there from here.

 

Don't fool yourself-you can't earn it.

There is nothing you can do:

For the high price of getting to heaven

Had to be paid for you.

 

For in order to enter heaven

You must be Holy as God is.

No one other than Jesus

 Has this righteousness.

 

Through Him the way is open

Because of the Cross so dear,

But you must accept His precious gift

To get there from here.

 

Through Christ's Blood we are deemed righteous

And acceptable in God's sight.

We must relinquish control of our own lives

And walk by faith not sight.

 

For our works are only as filthy rags,

In themselves they have no power.

It's being clothed in Christ's own righteousness

You can be saved this very hour.

 

So my friend reach out to Jesus

For His return is very near.

Ask Christ to forgive you of your sins

Then you can get there from here.

Isaiah 64:6
^" But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."