COMPROMISE

Nature cries out with GOD’s authority

See the LORD’s creation and believe

I am perfect all together so wonderful

Natures advocacies was once enough

Then sins influence began to creep

Man soon started his slow compromise

Trees majestic with the voice of GOD

Cut down to be merely a source of heat

Lilies of the valley thought so beautiful

Seen as weeds needing to be destroyed

Babbling brooks running so carefree

Only sustenance to cool a parched thirst

Stars amazing in their nightly brilliance

No longer considered an awesome display

The LORD’s highest creations are blinded

Stumbling aimlessly in the darkness groping

Deliberately searching for life’s answers

Saying to all, GOD we can’t know GOD

Give us proof of this unknown sovereign

Present his Majesty before us on this day

If not leave us to the human gods we know

Before the gods of gold and silver we bow

It’s the world of compromise that we belong

We are responsible to no one but ourselves

A day is coming says the LORD of Host

Terrifying with judgment for the wicked

When evil men’s deeds hidden by darkness

These are given the light of his holy presence

Account of blessings received to be required

Goats and sheep will be gathered right and left

"Then the King will say to those on his right,

`Come, you who are blessed by my Father;

Take your inheritance,

The kingdom prepared for you

Since the creation of the world

Then he will say to those on his left, `

""He will reply, `I tell you the truth,

Whatever you did not do for one of these,

The least of your brothers you did not do for me.'

Depart from me, you who are cursed,

Then they will go away to eternal punishment, `

Into the eternal fire prepared for the devil

With a fearful heart they will beg justification

No one told us, we never heard the truth

Nature cries out with GOD’s authority

See the LORD’s creation and believe

BARUCH 12/22/07