LEFT BEHIND ~ THE DEADLY SILENCE

LEFT BEHIND - THE DEADLY SILENCE

4/5/99

By Danie Marie

Why didn’t you tell us the things that you knew?

Why didn’t you tell us that we could know too?

We might have refused, we might have rejected

To follow the truth you could have reflected.

But you chose to follow when you could have led,

You selfishly held onto what you could have fed.

You refused to see the signs that you knew

Of Christ soon return, then the trumpet…blew!

The lights in the world now gone from our sight,

All’s turned to darkness—the day into night.

We were left behind on that fateful day,

Why didn’t you tell us so that we could pray?

We might have chosen if you’d shown the way,

Why didn’t you tell us, we might have said yea!

Can you see us here on the other side?

Don’t turn away now, you cannot hide.

We’re oh so thirsty, our mouths…dry,

Our souls in anguish, can you hear our cry?

Oh, we’re lost forever, never to know

The wonder of being perfectly whole.

Why didn’t you tell us the things that you knew?

Why didn’t you tell us…that we could choose, too?

Romans 10:14-15

"How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!'”

While I may have written this poem years ago, the message is just as poignant if not more, today.

Lord, open our eyes to those who are lost and in need of your saving grace. Help us love others unconditionally--to see them through your eyes, and to have compassion on them. Give us spiritual boldness to proclaim the Good News, that salvation comes from you alone. In Jesus name, amen.

I love you, friends! 

Danie Marie