Everyone Knows We've Come So Far

Well, not everyone.

We drive at ease in shiny cars

Take close up shots of distant stars.

We treat our women just like men

And count our carbs from one to ten.

With silver tongues we now convey

Our words, our thoughts the proper way.

Houses bigger- wallets fatter - abs tighter

Children smarter - morals looser - teeth are whiter.

With no more chains to Puritan past

Sex has no limits - we’re free at last.

Why, we feed the poor like never before

And curb the rich yet even more.

How far we’ve come with human rights.

We’re wiser now with brighter lights.

Our lifespan now is longer and longer,

New doctors’ pills, stronger and stronger.

The psychologist frees us, our teachers the best.

No need for gentle Jesus, no need for quiet rest.

We now call sin a sickness and treat it with a pill;

Too bad that in the old days, they thought it was the will!

 

But still a few with pride unraveled

See something else on roads less traveled.

They see porn on TV and morals decline

And virtue that’s trampled and mocked by design.

They see fetuses murdered, the mother can chose

Without slightest notion that she and we lose.

They see evil increase and Christians jeered;

Jews being slandered, the Bible not feared.

They see bombs exploding madly in the City of Our King

And earthquakes groaning with warnings they bring.

They see judges hammered when their faith is bold

Called narrow and intolerant, prejudiced and cold.

They see the Father weeping, as the world enjoys its mirth

The Son of God preparing to revisit planet earth.

They call us to get ready, ‘prepare your hearts this way-

Accept the Savior’s mercy, invite Him in today.'

Reviews

[Anna Cate Reid]

I'm loving this, too! Again there is a pleasing rhythm happening... carrying me onward to that final invitation.