Compass needles are delicate magnetic instruments.
With the earth's natural magnetic field they do align.
They may experience a ‘poles reversal incidence’, 1
If to compass needles, other magnets their poles
assign.
Here is a notion that perhaps may not be well known.
The moral compass of a person or a people,
Is like a delicate instrument, but culture grown.
Their ‘needles’ can also flip, but changes are …subtle.
Since the decades of the 1960s,
Morality in our nation has really slipped,
We’ve all prioritized our ‘Me jollies,’
Thus morality became more and more ...unzipped.
There were some voices that tried to stem the tide,
But when politically they did organize,
Their voices became mere political snide,
The result of morality …politicized.
The so-called Moral Majority,
No longer a clear, sound moral compass;
Never a plural majority,
In a nation that now seems …rudderless.
The evangelical so called ‘right’,
At morality, in ‘16 it winked.
It now seems very ‘wrong’, no longer ‘right’.
Now it’s moral authority seems …kinked.
God said from His Church in the latter day,
There would be a very great falling away.
From morality, politics made them sway.
Of the latter day, is this the matinee??
If so, rest assured the full, ‘nighttime’ version is next.
With gross immorality from the bottom-to-the-top,
For a long time, we will be reeling from its effect.
From seeds sown to whirlwinds, now it’s harvest time
from our
crop.
That is unless we learn lessons from ancient Amorites, 2
About whom God told Abraham He would give ~400 years,
Grace to repent of iniquities, and set things aright.
They blew their chance, so most fell by Israel’s
arrows and
spears.
Long ago God told His prophet who was perceptive,
Long ago God told His prophet who was perceptive,
‘I’m in earth exercising Grace, Justice,
and Right-ness.’ 3
Observant minds, note an
order that is instructive:
Justice must follow Grace, and always precedes Right-ness.
Justice must follow Grace, and always precedes Right-ness.
When immorality boldly comes ‘out of its closet’,
And righteousness ceases this once great nation to exalt, 4
It won’t be long before we are on God’s judgment docket.
Alas, if only His Church, would return to being …salt.
Once the poles of a compass needle have flipped,
With a stronger magnet the needle is
re-magnetized.
Once immorality in a land has become unzipped,
Only by God’s strong
punishment is it fully …excised.
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1 Their magnetic poles can flip.
2 See: Genesis 15:16
3 Thus
says the LORD: ‘Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let
not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the
rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this,
that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising
loving kindness (grace/mercy), judgment, and righteousness (doing what’s right)
in the earth. For in these I delight,’ says the LORD. (Jeremiah 9:23-24)
4 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. (Proverbs 14:34)
4 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. (Proverbs 14:34)
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