Problems of sinful fruits now stinking,
Pressures of lives in our world sinking,
Prayers of hearts divided, now bonding,
Perceptions of Love’s seeds responding.
Problems of physical pain across our land,
Pressures from opioids and street drugs at hand,
Prayers from righteous people these things do demand,
Perceptions of despair only then disband.
Problems of escalating gun violence,
Pressures of conflicting opinion variance,
Prayers of the mournful drown NRA’s alliance,
Perceptions of fruits from enterTAINTment’s license.
Problems of national morality eroded,
Pressures of family and work mores imploded,
Prayers for personal repentance are scapegoated,
Perceptions of immorality, sugarcoated.
Problems of discriminate opportunity,
Pressures of wealth and income inequality,
Prayers of the poor for justice, not just charity,
Perceptions that our world prefers ...military.
Problems of global weather patterns gone amuck,
Pressures on budgets for repairs with which we’re stuck,
Prayers of farmers, the poor, and coastal dwellers struck,
Perceptions of a world increasingly awestruck.
Problems in our world from hardly any fear of God,
Pressures demonic to think that is ok, not odd,
Prayers that with righteousness,
‘hands will be gloved, and feet shod’,
Perceptions of God’s released ...angelic judgment squad.
Problems at home amassing from our own new normal,
Pressures that America’s new normal is global,
Prayers for America’s leadership, now fickle,
Perceptions that world leadership we will now annul.
Problems like those noted above, and so much more, global,
Pressures mounting toward an era, tribulational,
Prayers of Christ’s saints who will escape the worst, predictable,
Perceptions of His soon return as Earth’s King, triumphal.
Pressures on budgets for repairs with which we’re stuck,
Prayers of farmers, the poor, and coastal dwellers struck,
Perceptions of a world increasingly awestruck.
Problems in our world from hardly any fear of God,
Pressures demonic to think that is ok, not odd,
Prayers that with righteousness,
‘hands will be gloved, and feet shod’,
Perceptions of God’s released ...angelic judgment squad.
Problems at home amassing from our own new normal,
Pressures that America’s new normal is global,
Prayers for America’s leadership, now fickle,
Perceptions that world leadership we will now annul.
Problems like those noted above, and so much more, global,
Pressures mounting toward an era, tribulational,
Prayers of Christ’s saints who will escape the worst, predictable,
Perceptions of His soon return as Earth’s King, triumphal.
Problems of our sinful fruits still stinking,
Pressures of lives in our world still sinking,
Prayers of our hurting hearts and lives out-crying,
Perceptions of God’s Hand to us outreaching.
Pressures of lives in our world still sinking,
Prayers of our hurting hearts and lives out-crying,
Perceptions of God’s Hand to us outreaching.
Though self-inflicted all of our problems seem to be,
May their unbearable pressures take us to our knee.
God will hear prayers of repentant
sinners promptly,
And will send perceptions
of His answers gracefully.
Of being a sinner, we all qualify!
To pay for our sin, He sent Jesus to
die.
Your turn: Him you must accept, and not
deny,
So His sacrifice to your life will apply.
For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the
world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is
not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has
not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:16-18)
