Un-marked? (Poem)

Un-precedented!!

Across our land and the world at large,

Reports are mounting of unimaginable firsts!

Unprecedented!, the echoing cry of our day.

With all facets of life in some kind of disarray,

Is there anywhere in crises folk are not submersed??

As one crisis ends, the next looms large.

In His love-amazing for humanity,

God gave us hints of roots we should inspect,

When life bears bad fruits in times like this,

Roots that carnal minds are sure to miss.

So when on crises the sun just won’t set,

Ponder His wisdom to stem calamity!

Un-vaccinated??

‘Get vaccinated!!!’ Cries across the USA,

From some parents of school-age kids.

Vaccinated kids who are at risk from those who are not.

Other parents resisting any vaccination shot.

One side embraces what the other forbids,

That is until a crisis flares up one day!!

Thus ‘herd immunity’ is broken or not achieved, ¹

And disease out-breaks can reap their havoc!

Tensions among opposing groups then heighten,

And both groups become more entrenched and stubborn.

As deaths mount, and both groups become awestruck,

Each insists and believes the other group …is deceived.

Un-marked??

Get marked!!! Listen carefully, you will hear God’s plea.

Though it’s not written in His holy script,

This echo reverberates page-after-page.

Those who hear and heed it, The Lord calls, ‘sage,’

Those who are released from >>crises tight grip<<.

Even if in crises, from terror they’ll be free. ²

To understand how this works, Jesus gives us a peep,

In His vision visit with Ezekiel, He remarked,

‘Angels who over this city are assigned,

Go! Mark those who with righteousness are aligned!’

Now let’s imagine the horrible fate of those un-marked,

Spiritually slain, yet alive …for a while. Deep! ³

To them, coming crises were then assigned,

Because with sins of the day, they went along.

And though of sins they were repeatedly warned,

With righteousness they refused to be adorned.

Then when caught in crises grips that were so strong,

Un-marked, too late with ‘right’ to realign. ⁴

Ear-marked??

Like vaccinated folk add protection for all,

We, the righteous in Christ, protect those who are not. ⁵

But when ‘Get marked!’ pleas to them go unheeded,

Both groups have less protection than is needed!

Why be shocked when they’re both caught in a crises knot?

Many more of the un-marked will certainly fall!

Trend-mark!!

In every crisis The Lord sends or allows,

After to us much Grace He has extended,

Here’s a trend to which He has been faithful:

There’s always a judgment remnant, grateful,

Those whose evil ways have been amended,

Voila! Righteousness in them has been …aroused!! ⁶

‘The Almighty rules in the kingdom of men.’

So revealed Daniel’s book in chapter 4, verse 17.

‘Calamities in a land are from Me!’,

So The Lord God told Amos to decree.

Good, bad or otherwise, ALL things by Him are overseen!

Please keep this in mind when lives crises upend. ⁷

Friend, if you can perceive the pattern of my rhyme,

Then your mind must be quite sharp!

If your spirit may likewise be,

Seeing the pattern that I see,

Then decide to become marked,

And escape God’s ‘sin-judgment-crisis’ paradigm.

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¹ Herd or community immunity is the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination. See: What is Herd Immunity and Who is at Risk from Unvaccinated Kids

² Equipped and able to go through crises by their strong faith and strident focus on God’s promises to the righteous in Christ.

³ In Ezekiel, chapter 9, Jesus pre-incarnate reveals His fascinating judgment modus operandi. Do check it out!

⁴ The respective protections and judgments meted out in Ezekiel 9 to the residents of Judah are recorded in 2 Chronicles 36 and Isaiah 52. Get this: The Lord even instructed Ezekiel to make a road sign, in advance, for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to be able to find the correct route to Judah! wOw, imagine that! (See: Ezekiel 21:22)

⁵ Jesus calls us ‘the [preserving, spiritual] salt of the Earth.’ (See: Matthew 5:13)

⁶ See: What’s Really Going On (…Inside)

⁷ See: Amos 3: 1-6