Upsetting the World

 

 

Is it a bad or a good thing

To upset the world?

Well, depending on who you are,

It could be normal or absurd.

 

Absurd if you are a Christian,

Normal if you are not

And I dare say that in many cases

Christianity is considered rot.

 

If the world is getting upset

At what you say and do,

Chances are my brother, my sister,

To the Bible you’ve been true.

 

For not only here of late

But for as long as I can remember

Christians have upset the world

And those of Satan’s chamber.

 

Any friend of the world

Is seen as “at enmity of God”

Basically because, my friend,

Righteousness is God’s call.

 

Believers are to imitate Christ

And conformed to his image

And not to be squeezed by others

Into this worldly heritage.

 

There is so little in common

Re the Christian and the world,

And that’s why the Christian believer

Is often viewed as absurd. 

 

 

God created one race,

The world has founded many:

The whites, the blacks and coloured,

The intelligent and the dummy.

 

God created two genders

But now there is a daily increase

And given the brilliance of today

This is not likely to cease.

 

To the ‘L’ there was added a ‘G’

To the ‘G’ was added a ‘B’

And since some needed a change

To the ‘B’ was added a ‘T’.

 

And on this trajectory, of course,

It would very soon appear

The coming of yet another gender:

The advent of the Queer.

 

And so, to the ‘T’ was added ‘Q’

And to the ‘Q’ was added ‘I’;

The arranging of a new alphabet

And one difficult to describe…

 

Other than truthfully to say,

It smacks of the very insane

But of course, as you and I know,

That would be upsetting again.

 

The world finds it very upsetting

When believers take a stand

On Biblically defined standards

And what this means for man.

 

 

The fact of the first two humans

And their catastrophic fall

And the process of man’s redemption

Beginning with Abraham’s call.

 

The ministry of Jesus Christ

And his rejection by the Jews

And his now being the only way

Seen as a most outlandish view.

 

It is upsetting, to say the least,

To a world that is steep in sin

And that has gone against the grade

Of who Christians believe in.

 

How can Christians not support

The vices of a deprived world?

Why, that is not only mind-boggling

But it is absolutely absurd.

 

How can Christians not equate

The struggles of these two:

The acceptance of blacks and coloured

And the approval of the LGBTQ?

 

Add to these the other minorities

Under the guise of equal rights

That militantly advance their cause

Every day and every night.

 

 

It’s the Christians against the world

From the advent of the Church

And the disciples of Jesus Christ

Whom the world went out to hurt.

 

Starting with the Jews themselves

That comingled with the Romans

To eradicate every single Christian

They perceived to be a problem.

 

For it was the then perception

They had turned the world upside down

And it was not to be a compliment

Even though it was profound.

 

Yes, those early Church pioneers

Had really upset the world,

Living a life of danger for Jesus Christ

Was what they all preferred.

 

Would you prefer, they asked,

That we obey men rather than God?

For them, that was unthinkable

When Christ had given his all.

 

 

How could they do such a thing

Having witnessed his ascension?

He had upset the world

And such would be their mission.

 

This too is our mandate

Meaning those who are “the called”,

We become public enemy No. 1

Just like Peter, James and Paul.

 

Stewart Russell © November 22, 2022

The Undesirables

 

 

This world is too crowded

The population’s too huge,

We must rid us of most of them

Which ones will we choose?

 

Let’s think about the races

That’s a good place to start,

Which colour predominately

Do we want out of our park?

 

We have yellow and red

And there are bronze and black,

Three of them at this time

We can give some slack.

 

Though it’s colour we want

We’ll settle for the blacks,

Let’s get rid of those first

At the top of the stack.

 

 

They are most undesirable

Though, not in the past,

Back then they served us well

But as our slave class.

 

Now they want equal rights

And think we are unfair,

It is time those undesirables

Just disappear.

 

We can starve them out

Or let them have a feast

Particularly on those things

That make them deceased.

 

Let us create a virus

To which they are susceptible

And deprive them of a vaccine

That makes it irreversible.

 

Let us build up stress

So that they will want to die

And the police can take them out

Once they defy.

 

Blacks are the undesirables,

The other colours are too

But for the time being

The blacks will do.

 

 

Too small is our global village

For these undesirables,

The poor class is next;

Their demise is inevitable.

 

They are eating up the food

That is in store for us,

They are demanding more

And creating a big fuss.

 

They too must go

'And the sooner the better'

That brings us to creed

But that’s a different matter.

 

 

Colour, class and creed:

That’s how we will proceed

Then we will deal with our own

If they do not heed.

 

The rich will rule the weak

Or we’ll get rid of them,

Soon we’ll have the right numbers

To solve our problem.

 

Did you notice who is left?

It is the white rich class:

Their obsessive right to rule

Goes way back in the past.

 

They will take out their own

When there’s no more to take out,

That’s what the undesirables

Is all about.

 

 

This world is too crowded

The population’s too huge,

We must rid us of most of them

Which ones will we choose?

 

Stewart Russell © July 2020