When Saint Peter calls your name

My wife detests country music, and I mean detests it.

Personally, I love the stories they convey.

This one from Big Tom says a lot about the similarity of our birth and our death. The lyrics communicate how everyone is going out with nothing, just as we came in with nothing. 

Stream it on Spotify. It's a catchy wee number.

LYRICs

Oh we're going out the same way we came in

Don't matter who you know or where you've been

Makes no difference who you are, Skid Row Joe or superstar

You're going out the same way you came in

We are born into this world without a thing

And we leave it just as naked as we came

You may drive a Coup de Ville, own a mansion on a hill

Don't mean nothing when Saint Peter calls your name

Oh you're going out the same way you came in

Someone will notify your next of kin

Some will weep and some will moan, some will spit upon your stone

But you're going out the same way you came in

Oh they lay you out in all your fancy clothes

And they'll figure out just who and what you own

Then the lawyers line their nest and your kinfolk gets the rest

Oh you can't take it with you when you go

Oh you're going out the same way you came in

Makes no difference who you know or where you've been

Makes no difference who you are, Skid Row Joe or superstar

You're going out the same way you came in

Oh you're going out the same way you came in

Makes no difference who you know or where you've been

Makes no difference who you are, Skid Row Joe or superstar

You're going out the same way you came in

Yeah, you're going out the same way you came in

The in-between period is our life. In it we have a choice to make. Choosing Jesus as saviour or rejecting His invitation determines our afterlife.

So although we all will be "going out the same way we came in", in life we can choose eternal life and abundant life. Don't leave it too late and Keep 'er Country!