No mighty nation is too great to be lost.
Near the cliff, we dance, all sparkle and flair,
Enjoying the ‘American affair’.
We boast in our power, wealth, and pride,
Blind to the edge, where past nations died.
There Babylon fell, Rome and all the rest,
They crowned themselves as eternally blessed.
But moral rot in leaders and people caused rifts,
That toppled them all …over nation-ending cliffs!
Just like us today, this they failed to learn:
By their dancing ways, The Lord’s Grace they spurned.
His Grace has a timer—no bell, no chime,
It’s a Mercy grant, for a finite time.
The Lord is ever patient, slow to strike down.
He waits for repentance—but we make Him frown.
Might our unrest, and rising angst,
Be Heaven’s test, and His complaint?
What if our calamities, losses and strife,
Are The Lord withdrawing His sheltering life??
And what if one man—flawed, loud and so proud,
Was raised, a mirror, held up to our crowd??
It shows what we treasure, and what we adore,
The god of self-worship, the sins we ignore.
He sees our dance, to Him, a stenching odor.
He sees the cliff, that we will soon go over!
Like those nations in our wake, we are spoiled and wild,
As they did, with fire we play—an unruly child,
Ready for The Lord’s disciplining rod.
Like with Rome, other nations will applaud!!!
Yet mercy remains, but for how long? Unknown.
Repentance may delay judgement seeds now sown.
If we don’t heed, of this be sure.
Fruits of those seeds, we’ll all endure!
Thus, near the cliff, we dance, our flag flying high,
Our leaders grift. We can’t hear, groans in the sky.
Over our cliff, will we fall, …or be tossed?
The Lord sees each heart. He’s counting our cost.
He has said:
'The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.'
(Jeremiah 18:7-10)
