Author: Hillary van Eyssen

In this modern age where freedom
Is the cry throughout the earth
Woman’s rights remove the rights of babes
Who haven’t come to birth

China’s rights to communism
Overrule the right to teach
The beauty of the Gospel
They keep Bibles out of reach

Many people jailed and tortured
Inhumane, atrocities
Perpetrated against Christians
Because of their beliefs

In Uganda millions martyred
By Islamic radicals
Many more forced into slavery
For being in God’s will

Christians killed by their own families
In Islamic countries still
Islamic rulers like Bin Laden shout
Death to the infidels

In the Australia gay rights remove
The Christians’ rights to preach
The unadulterated truth
The Word is called hate speech

But more stupefying the people
Who have Bibles of their own
Collecting dust upon the shelf
In many of our homes

They still have freedom of religion
Yet they turn their backs on God
Defame, blaspheme, and curse Him
Make a mockery of the Lord

On the right a people
Whose priority is God’s will
On the left those who despise Him
And to death will hate God still

In the middle, there’s another group
Lost, living in despair
Who need a light to guide them
To a loving God who cares

Wake up Christian warriors
Leave passivity behind
Strive to bring in all the lost sheep
We are running out of time

We live in a world that has gone insane
Where anything goes and no-one’s blame
Where drugs are a part of everyday life
Where alcoholism and crime run rife

We live in a world of vice and of shame
Where children suffer abuse, rape and pain
Homosexuals get married and we have gay priests
Prostitution’s now legal and on the increase

We live in a world of monstrous men
Of poverty, famine and wars and mayhem
Where the unborn are legally murdered these days
By highly paid doctors in terrible ways

We live in a world of chaos and need
Of envy and hate and insatiable greed
Where people want power, great riches and fame
Where they trample on others these things to gain

We live in a world that is cruelly debased
By oil spills, exhaust fumes and toxic waste
Where forests are wiped out and beasts are extinct
Where people are used for experiments

Where God’s Word is called hate speech
God’s children enslaved
While their families are massacred
In Muslim raids

We live in a world that was given in love
Once perfect and good by our Father above
To nurture, respect and to rule righteously
In wisdom, compassion and purity

We live in a world steeped in witchcraft so vile
Where Satan is worshiped and God is reviled
We live in a world that is cursed through our sin
Is this the world we would give back to Him