Lyrics
When it's all been said and done,
There is just one thing that matters:
Did I do my best to live for Truth?
Did I live my life for You?
When it's all been said and done
All my treasures will mean nothing.
Only what I've done
For Love's rewards
Will stand the test of time.
Lord, Your mercy is so great
That You look beyond our weakness,
And find purest gold in miry clay,
Making sinners into saints.
I will always sing Your praise
Here on earth and ever after,
For You've shown me Heaven’s my true Home,
When it's all been said and done.
You're my life when life is gone.
When it's all been said and done,
There is just one thing that matters:
Did I do my best to live for Truth?
Did I live my life for You?
Did I live my life for You?
Song History & Meaning
Composer / Hymnodist: Don Moen
At the end of our lives, the applause of the world and the treasures we accumulated will fade away into silence. What truly remains is how faithfully we loved Jesus and lived for His truth. This song gently invites us to pause and realign our hearts with eternity, trusting in God's overwhelming mercy rather than our own achievements. May we choose today to lay down perishable treasures and invest our lives in what matters most to Him.
📖 Related Scripture Passages:
- Matthew 6:19: ““Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moths and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;”
- Matthew 6:20: “but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;”
- 1 Corinthians 3:13: “each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.”