MEN FAINT WITH FEAR

Men faint with fear

in the midst of the land;

the Day of the LORD

is surely at hand.

Morality no longer

is what it has been;

like gold in the snout

of a pig are all men.

“Chastity,” “prudence,”

these words are no more;

they’re long since forgotten

in the world of the whore.

We whore after sex;

we whore after money;

we bow down to mammon

and ever more “honey.”

We fail to repent

though God told us to;

“We’re covered by grace

to do what we do!”

We call evil good

and say there’s no sin;

“I can do what I want

with the entrails of men.

“I can remake the laws

with sins I define;

I can silence the mouth

of an earlier time.

“I can make untold prisons,

start wars at my will,

enslave all your children

and teach them to kill.

“I seduce all your youth

with music and clothes,

corrupt all your preaching

yet nobody knows.”

We think we’re so holy,

so close to our God,

but we’ve not walked one mile

on the road where he trod.

We say we are Christian,

that Jesus we’d hear,

but if he came to our church,

he’d be out on his ear!

The power of the holy

is finally broken,

“the power of godliness”

is merely a token.

So man faints with fear

at the coming unknown.

He’ll reap the wild whirlwind

for the sins that he’s sown.

By Glenn Hall

July 20, 2008