When wrong and
un-natural are rapidly growing,
When getting high brings the lowest of lows, legalized,
When wealth and power are right, and all else is debased,
When governments don’t govern, and lives are imploding,
When stars are crooks, and crook have their records sanitized,
When in markets and poli-tricks, hope and trust are placed…
When singles shack-up, and married couples unshackle,
When a government tries to parent, and parents won’t,
When every aspect of culture has been polarized,
When children grow up not learning to be respectful,
When followers of Jesus Christ, seemingly don’t,
When it seems like, by devils, our world has been
hypnotized…
Ask yourself, ‘So
what’s new?’ The answer is, ‘Nothing,’
Except perhaps the means by which these things are done.
From time immemorial, such things have happened
Towards the predicted end, all things are nudging.
Thus, we embrace evil, and righteousness we shun.
To its predicted end, this age is now beckoned.
As challenging as these things to some may be,
Thus, we embrace evil, and righteousness we shun.
To its predicted end, this age is now beckoned.
As challenging as these things to some may be,
To a point, there
remains a reason to hope.
In our pursuit of
evil, we become deft,
As from every restraint we push to be free.
We increase our
slide down sin’s slippery slope,
Until all hope may
be lost …when ‘right’ is ‘left’.
I don’t mean when
right becomes wrong, or vice versa,
Or when light and
righteous insight become darkness,
Or when what’s
sweet is called bitter. 2
Though such things
as these would be quite an enigma,
Take a moment to
ponder the response to such madness,
When God says, ‘Grace, come up hither!’
Here’s a point that
may be an inconvenient truth:
Grace, from God to us all extended,
Comes with an
un-disclosed expiration date.
When sins reach
beyond the point of being uncouth,
Rest assured, judgment
is intended. 3
God turns and
leaves the scene, through His exit gate!
Israel, chosen by
God to be right,
Soon flipped so
much that was once right, to wrong.
King Saul began in
an humble and right way,
Then did increasing
evil in God’s sight.
Many prophets warned
of judgments erelong.
Eventually, God turned and walked away…
Pharisees, so-called
right in their day,
Challenged Jesus
right, left and center.
With very harsh
words, He answered them all.
From them He just turned and walked away… 4
He warned faith in
our day would falter.
Now, modern Laodiceans, they’re called. 5
Friend, in each of
these examples above,
It’s wrongs
that become right, that are then left!
That happens as God’s
standard, we leave,
And with our
self-rightness, we fall in love.
Of any sense of Truth,
we are bereft,
All because by
devils, we’re deceived.
History shows the
so-called right, are so often wrong!
At the rapture,
many presumed right, will be left,
Left behind to
endure tribulation horrors.
To be pre-qualified
to sing Christ redemption’s song,
In our pursuit of His
rightness, let’s become deft.
This requires
filling our hearts with His Truth treasures.
So what is the
standard of your rightness?
Is it the cultural
norms of our day,
Norms that are ever
sliding downward, and will soon betray?
Christ frees us from
such cultural blindness,
And
from devilish deceptions that sway.
His promise is, from
us ...to never turn and walk away.
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1 That which has been is what will
be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
(Ecclesiastes 1:9)
2 Woe
to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe
to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight! (Isaiah 5:20-21)
3 Jeremiah 9:24 insightfully reveals judgment
follows after Grace, when there is no repentance, and a time of righteousness among a remnant, follows judgment. Count on it!
4 ‘A wicked and adulterous generation seeks
after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet
Jonah.’ And He left them…
(Matthew 16:4) And Jesus said to
them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing
infants You have perfected praise’?” Then
He left them… (Matthew 21:16) Then
the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign
from heaven, testing Him. But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and
said, ‘Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to
you, no sign shall be given to this generation.’ And He left them… (Mark 8:11-13)
