The Preacher's Message Poem by Reginald Walker

Man of God, when I send you to the people of the nations this is what you will say.
Inform the people of their great sin and the wrong things they have done.
Because the people have sinned, the nations are now wasting away.
If the people do not change, the nations might be faced with certain annihilation.

Suppose I tell these nations and the people the untruth that they really long to hear.
They will just continue to trust in the lie that the things they do is what is right.
Truthfully, the deeds were evil and our exploits have given birth to our worst fear.
Our nations will die because of the sins done in the shadows of the night.

The wrong things that our sinful nations have done will certainly destroy us.
If the people sin, then we refuse to seek God although he promised he would forgive;
By our collective actions, we have shown that in God we really do not trust.
If the people do not do what is acceptable to God, the nations will not live.

However, it does not give God any joy to see our nations die.
Therefore, we must turn away from our sins and choose to live.
In God, we must trust and only on Him we must rely.
We must seek first God and all our sins, He promised to forgive.

God has done the only acceptable thing that will save the people of the nations.
The deed has been done to erase the harm caused by our disobedience to the Lord.
If we turn away from our sins, God will spare our floundering nations.
We must seek forgiveness for the nations' sins against God on one accord.

Suppose I speak the unspoken truth that we can be sure the nations will die.
Can we, then, turn from our sins and determine to do what God declared fair and right.
Can we give back what we stole and give the Lord the trust our selfish actions deny.
Can we follow the path that give life and trust in God to help us during the fight.

Afterwards, the nations can be sure that the people will live according to the Lord.
None of the sins the people have committed will be held against the nations.
However, the people of the nations must strive to live on one accord.
Together the people can survive, however divided the nations will face eradication.

Suppose the people of the nations stopped doing what is evil and turned from sin.
Suppose we did everything just as the word of God constantly reveal to us.
Suppose the people realized that before the throne of God we will stand in the end
Our names will be written in the Lamb‘s Book of Life, because in God we did trust.

So let us turn away from our sins and change our evil ways.
Why should the people of the nations die, when God sacrificed His Son for us.
Let us resolve to do things differently than we did in our former days.
Let us choose to do what is right by placing in God our trust.