Falling Away...

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.
1 Cor.16:13

They cry for peace and scorn its Giver; fertilizing grief

They cry for truth and trample it with mutant disbelief

They cry for hope but do not understand its Hands nail-scarred

They cry for love but hate the One who is its very Word

They cry for joy while they destroy its temple with deceit

The cry for help while Mercy spreads its Stay beneath their feet

…while knowledge thirsts for more than college seems able to give

While hunger wails for more than food to find a way to live

While The One Way to peace-truth-hope-love-joy-help seems too hard

They weep and mourn and beat The Door that they themselves have barred

© Janet Martin

 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, 
or be troubled, 
neither by spirit, 
nor by word, 
nor by letter as from us, 
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: 
for that day shall not come, 
except there come a falling away first, 
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

2 Thess.2:1-3 KJV