Spoiled Children
Ken Pullen – copyright 2011
O, how can so few see
through thickening wickedness the suffocation of light
darkness growing, growling blacker than moonless night
how day in this once richly, divinely blessed nation
has been turned to perpetual night
instead of on bended knee
seeking forgiveness
searching the Word
asking for wisdom, understanding, discernment spiritual knowledge of Almighty God
bowing to
nothingness
instead
clueless
selfish
dead in soul
empty of head
ignorant
lawlessness
rising
raging
on this land ‘tween
dying sea to dying sea
My country
hewn by people led
by divine desire and direction
built stone by stone
with most praising the Father
with each drop of sweat
now a collapsing nation
worshipping the lie
where spirits go into bondage
to die
serving the fallen angel of light and his minions
our roots, foundations, lost, rotted, twisted & forgotten
people merely existing in the moment
without detection
of this spreading by the second
infection
faith grows weak
when only worldly knowledge we seek
praising men
turning from God
loving sin
excusing
redefining
perverting
every foundation
across
throughout
within the nation
most lives nothing but suspended ruse
as the truth they refuse
We are a nation of spoiled children
losing interest in every new toy
everything a selfish
fleeting
vain joy
falling for every ploy
throwing a tantrum
if we don’t get our way
refusing to listen to words of instruction
what the words of wisdom say
within the Word
of God
What a powerfully anointed poem. So correct about our Nations founding. Such an accurate assessment of its current condition. It is so strange that observing and reflecting on this Nations current condition tends to do one of two things. 1.Makes you want to throw your arms up in the air and say what’s the use. The evil agenda is so entrenched that there is no way little ole me can do anything about it.
That is precisely what our adversary has worked so long and hard to program us to do. I for one, refuse to succumb to his devices. The other reaction was eloquently and profoundly brought out by Isaac Watts in his Hymn “Am I a Soldier of the Cross?” The third verse by God’s grace helped me to see the entire reason for our existence. For the sheep and the goats to be divided, for us to choose our side. And for the perfection of Christ’s Bride.
Am I a soldier of the cross?
A follower of the Lamb?
And would I fear to own His cause?
Or blush to speak His Name?
Must I be carried to the skies,
On flowery beds of ease?
While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas?
This next verse opened my eyes.
Are there no foes for me to face?
Must I not stem the flood?
IS THIS VILE WORLD A FRIEND TO GRACE
TO HELP ME ON TO GOD?
Paul said that “nothing can be done against the truth but for the truth.” God said through the Prophet Isaiah “Behold I have created the blacksmith who blows the coals in the fire and brings forth an instrument for his work, And I have created the spoiler to destroy” Isaiah 54:16 The day is coming when Satan, to his dismay will discover that all that he has done to hinder has but furthered the purposes of God. For one thing God will have a Bride that has been tried in the fire and purified and will be without spot or wrinkle. The sheep will be aligned on their side and the goats will be on their side. There will be no grey area. No hybrid sheeoats. “Make the tree good and its fruit good or make the tree evil and its fruit evil our Savior said. He hates mediocrity and luke warmness!
God said through the prophet Jeremiah “Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness. And cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed” Jeremiah 48:10 In other words “We are to get in the fray! We are to engage the forces of darkness and calling on God’s grace and provision chip away at the gates of hell until they are demolished! We do this with LOVE! With the confession that Jesus is the Christ the Son of the Living God is what batters down hell’s gates. When we lift up Jesus Christ as Lord and walk in obedience The Holy Spirit will come along side and do the incalculable! You can take it to the bank. Read 2 Cor 10:4-6 and meditate on the words of verse 6 “Being ready to punish all disobedience when you obedience is fulfilled” God stands ready, willing, able and waiting to enter into Spiritual warfare on behalf of His divine and eternal purpose when we simply obey His Word and His Spirit. Leonard Ravenhill said people ask “Where is the God of Elijah?” He is on His throne and reigns now as He did then. The question they should be asking is: “Where are the Elijahs of God?”
If anything I write here has an effect upon anyone coming here it is only because God is working and I am merely a humble instrument. I am just a regular person making numerous mistakes and falling short daily. I place my trust and sight upon the Holy Spirit in the hope and prayer I do not grieve Him, and can continune on serving Almighty God.
Isacc Watts wrote wonderfully of God’s truth and man’s purpose being the pursuit of God and righteousness. We are to help one another especially in this world as it grows darker and embraces Satan while blaspheming against God in abominaiton after abomination among both the heathen and the professed believers following after false teachers. None should give up nor surrender. For it may just be someone out there – it WILL BE someone out there – that is the last Gentile to hear the calling and receive the salvation of the Lord’s shed blood and resurrection. Soon the door of grace will close to the Gentile. We cannot be idle nor downtrodden – nor riotous in our joy as we go around thinking amiss to take up the cross and be a disciple of Jesus Christ’s = bliss, lack of suffering and lack of sacrifice.
“The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer,but that their sufferings might be like His.”
~George MacDonald
As the world becomes more wicked and the truth becoomes rarer and rarer to find – more corrupted and perverse – we all must suit up in the full armor of the Word of God, the uncompromising inerrant authority. We must not coast or become slothful. Complacent. As the unaware in the world is with the veil over their eyes and their ears closed to hearing the truth.
We are all regular people made into what we are by the power of God. By the power of literally asking for the Holy Spirit to lead us and increase our spiritual wisdom, understanding, discernment and knowledge. To make ready.
And to become a light unto the world. We can many times do this without words. We do this by our walk and not only our talk.
May we all become strengthened thorugh the living Word of God and if we feel the need to seek diversion find it in the words of the Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley’s and in the A.W. Tozer’s and not in other places. May we daily seek to draw closer to the Lord and distance ourselves from this wicked world. And not limit the power of the Holy Spirit. May we increase our faith and trust in all of God’s Word and in the Holy Trinity and not applpy worldly logic or knowledge or philosophy to either the Word of God, or to God, Christ or the Holy Spirit.
And realize we may be the one to be that example to someone who may in truth be the last Gentile to receive grace through believing upon and making Christ their Savior and Lord of their life.
And do not hesitate to be that shining light to any Jews as well. Pray for Israel. Pray for Jerusalem. And for the Jewish people. That the remnant becomes stronger and made ready. Pray in earnest for those professing belief in God’s Word and His Son that they are willing to follow God’s will and make themselves ready for what is…and what is to swiftly come…and they will not turn out to be as the thorns, thistles, roadside or rocky ground, but that they are of good ground allowing the living Word of God to take root and grow fully in them to bear fruit – and this does not mean everyone professing belief is a missionary or an evangelist or should be. We do not save anyone – only Christ and His life, death and resurrection can save. We are to be examples.In truth. As a result of the only truth – God’s Word.
Better to live daily to increase our personal understanding and knowledge of God’s Word so we can discern clearly and increase our spiritual wisdom and be found pleasing and acceptable unto the Lord then to be under the impression if we go around thinking we’re going to convert and save the world – which cannot and will not be saved, the great majority, the overwhelming vast majority will perish and be condemned to hell for eternity since they refuse the truth – better we live daily to be found right in the sight of God then to be under the delusion we are “winning souls for Christ” as if in some contest and we live amiss and are found in the number who say, “Lord, Lord I did this and this and that for you in your name.” And Christ says to them all;
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father, who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out demons? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Matthew 7: 21-23
Many will say…and be told “I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
We all must live daily to seek, accept and ask for the will of the Father, Jehovah Elyon, Almighty God to be revealed in our lives and then walk that path. No matter what. And the Father’s will is revealed through His living Word and through fervent prayer not amiss – permitting the Holy Spirit to lead us in all things.
Ken