Don’t You Agree

By Jim Perry (1926-2000)

Don’t you agree this world is in trouble?

    Or do you go around thinking you are seeing double?

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

    He does not consider the seriousness of these days.

He thinks if he waits long enough, things will be better.

    But he refuses to search and believe God’s letter.

Things won’t get better as long as people lie.

    Still every man is appointed once to die

Who is right and who is wrong,

    Is a decision that to God does belong.

Man can be hot to do God’s will

    Or he can be as cold toward God as a mid winter chill

If man thinks he can compromise

    He will never be able to obtain the prize.

There is one Lord, one Faith and one Baptism

    But there is no hope in Humanism.

The Kingdom of God is now at hand

    What God has revealed, we need to understand

The decision is left to every man to learn

    He can obey God or forever he will burn