While You Were.......

A few weeks ago, I wrote this poem and put it up on my Facebook wall. Today, I thought it was a good idea to share it here, on my blog. With all the tragedy our nation is facing and all the uncertainty we face as a nation, perhaps this will help us focus on what's really important.

While You Were.....

While you were fighting for your rights,

Your neighbor up and died.

He did not hear you tell him,

Of your Jesus crucified.

Instead he heard your latest call

For things you would not buy.

He didn't really have a clue

What price he'd pay for that lie.

The lie is very clear now,

As plain as it can be.

The lie is known to all who dwell

Without Christ for eternity.

The lie is simple to believe

And sounds so true and right.

The lie so sorely tempts us

To fight for a human plight.

But, alas, the lie is just that

A lie, no more, no less

The lie distracts us all

From His righteousness.

For what difference will it make

In your neighbor's eternity

If he enters it while living right,

While Hell remains his destiny?

He can wear a tie

And be straight as he can be

And still face the plight

Of a Christ-less eternity.

We're better off to fight

for the Gospel every day,

A fight that we are sure to win

For the price that Jesus paid

All man's pride, gay or straight

Will be brought down one day

By the One Who conquered sin

By the One Who lights the way.

So,  tell those neighbors yet today

The joy that waits for them,

When they put their faith in the Savior

Who can save them from their sin.

This Savior will save them

As only He can,

And create in them

A completely new man!

A man who does no longer need

To lean upon his sin:

A man who surely will not stay,

In the path of his own whim.

A changed man your neighbor can be

If he will trust Christ for his eternity.

The Gospel makes the difference

In the lives of all people today,

Not a boycott or a protest;

Not a petition about being gay.

The Gospel takes a man

And makes him new inside;

So his sin no longer rules his life

And he looks to the Crucified.

Even you, all taut with pride

Can find eternal rest with the crucified,

So, please do tell me,

Why do you protest?

He died for you, too

To light and show the way,

To His eternal peace and rest,

You can know Him today.

~Tricia