If the world will only get worse
Then, what are we doing?
This would be an indictment on us
Surely from where I am viewing.
Before I go any further
Let me define “we” and “us”,
By these first-person pronouns I mean
Those named after Jesus.
I mean the “born-again”
More commonly known as Christians,
And certainly not “cushions”:
A once popular perversion.
The conversation would go like:
“Don’t you know she is a Christian?”
Whereupon there’d be the response,
“You must mean a cushion!”
Then would follow a history
Of the unchristian things she does
And the listener’s ears and mind
Would suddenly come abuzz.
Immediately she’d be indicted
Whether false or true,
For especially in small societies
This is what we do.
While this may be a specific
The proverbial brush is applied to all
And this, not only to professors,
But also, to the called.
Professors and possessors alike
Painted with the same brush,
And such an indictment causing
A definite lack of trust.
If the world will only get worse
Christians are to blame!
Don’t kill the messenger yet,
Give him chance to explain.
“Be salt and be light!”
Tell me, how can we do this
If this is an impossible task?
Something is here I miss.
This is the mandate given
As shown in the Gospel of Matthew
But the glitz and glamour of the world
Have redirected our view.
Hence, the indictment is on us
If the world will only get worse,
It means our salt and light are lacking;
We contribute to the curse.
Be salt, be light, as Jesus says
Cannot be an impossible task
And that we must be faithful to this
Is all the Saviour asks.
He has given the enablement,
He has provided the tools,
The indictment is definitely on us
If we gladly suffer fools.
Our outlook must be different
From the one we have settled on,
The world will only get worse
When every Christian is gone.
For every born-again believer
The world is a better place,
It is another light to light the dark
And salt to improve its taste.
Stewart Russell © January 16, 2022
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