The following poem was written by my friend Greg Stier of "Dare to Share"
There’s a generation in crisis Right before our very eyes. Can you feel their secret pain? Can you hear their silent cries? Suicide and school shootings Are now a common thing. Death is right among us And teens can feel its sting. Some turn to social media Being fed by just their feed. Measuring their self-worth By the lives that others lead. Some turn to drugs and alcohol And look for hope in highs. But short-term satisfaction Cannot stop their inner cries. A handful turn to violence They bully, they fight, they kill. They take vengeance for their pain And innocent blood is spilled. We mourn the loss and make a plan. We lock our schools down tight. We hire guards and enact laws We won’t go down without a fight! But there is another enemy Invisible to human eyes. He whispers lies in tingling ears And cheers when our teens die. Satan's army is in the millions And he has a plan to win. Armed with empty promises He destroys our teens with sin. But now’s the time for us to fight It’s not just through locks and laws. It’s through prayer and the Gospel. It’s through the power of God! It’s by energizing every church To mobilize their youth To gospelize their schools Until teens hear the truth Until they hear the truth that Jesus Died for them upon a cross. Enduring ultimate grief and pain He entered into human loss. Until they hear the hope of Jesus That he was raised up from the dead So they too can be resurrected From this life of sin and death. So rise up church and be the church! Let’s fight for these young lives! Upon our knees we’ll call on God And then we will arise! We’ll rise to charge the gates of hell To snatch teens from the flames! We’ll fight the fight until it’s won! And we’ll win in Jesus’ Name! Dedicated to the victims and survivors of the most recent school shooting in Parkland,Florida.
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January 2021
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