Christ is the criteria

Christ is the criteria

Joel Howard

It's a matter

of death and life

This the valley

The prophet cries:

"Sinner, will you live or die?"

Christ is the criteria

This the measure

This the guide

What will you have

Done with Christ?

Call him crazy

Or accept his life

Christ is the criteria

There's a window

Short, of time

Within which each

One must decide

How will heaven

Measure your life?

"What, son, did you

Do with Christ?"

Not much else

Satisfies

Not much else

Withstands the tide

Embrace Him, then

And keep alive

Christ is the criteria

On whose team

On whose side

Will you now

and then reside?

There's only two

And only one stride

The narrow,

The criteria: Christ

Far from fame

Far from gluttony

Fare from lust

Far from fantasy

Christ the real

Requires suffering

"So, now," he says

"What will you do with me?"