It’s a World Gone Mad

It’s a world gone mad; upside down.
Someone gets offended every time you turn around.
We want JUSTICE, and we want it now!
We’re gonna make you pay, and we don’t care how.
We like free speech until we don’t agree;
Speech is only free if you agree with me.
I will protest and strike and destroy what’s yours!
This is how it’s done in today’s culture wars.

Many Christians in church like to say-
That’s not me, I don’t act that way.
I believe in justice, yes, consequences too;
Indeed, all should get what is coming due.
Except for me, you see, there’s amazing grace-
MY sins are forgiven, Jesus took my place.
And yes, that is true, all praise to God!
But this is where our thinking might be flawed.

I’m not a vandal; one who sets things on fire,
I’m a model citizen, you’re preaching to the choir!
But there are those who ought to know better
That’s when it’s hard to be a forgiver and forgetter.
I like to think I am smarter and better and greater,
Forgetting all I have comes from the Creator.
I did nothing to choose my better place;
I am what I am, only by God’s grace.

Some have it worse, that’s just a fact.
What I believe determines how I act.
What about mercy? For the aftermath of sin-
For those outside church but especially those within.
I’m not physically out there, tearing things apart-
But maybe the attitude that lives in my heart
Is doing worse damage than vandals ever could-
When I don’t love others the way that I should.

In this world gone mad, where do I belong?
Do I make myself judge of right and wrong?
Do I decide who gets a second chance?
Can I know every heart and circumstance?
Of course I can’t; that’s not my place!
My job is to share God’s mercy and grace.
In all I say and in all I do,
Father, change me to love more like You.