TRIBULATIONS

Thunder snow

Sleeting storms
Crippled metroplexes 
Power down, frozen towns 
Polar vortex touches Texas 
In the world you will have tribulation 

Falling rains, rising floods
Stranding many on their roofs
Dozens slain, sliding mud
Dirty avalanche on the loose
In the world you will have tribulation

Wild fires, uncontrolled 
Fire-starters, unpatrolled 
Fire-nadoes, beyond belief 
Firefighters, need relief 
In the world you will have tribulation 


Whirlwinds, cyclones
Earthquakes under seas 
Hurricanes, typhoons
Tidal wave tsunamis
In the world you will have tribulation 

Allison, Isabelle
Rita and the likes of Ike 
Katrina in New Orleans 
The failure of a dike
In the world you will have tribulation 

Sink holes, opening up
Swallowing much into the muck
Hopeless blame on bad luck 
Experts speechless from the shock 
In the world you will have tribulation 

Nations quake, 
Bureaucrats crack
Leaders shake, 
Whistleblowers rat
In the world we have had tribulation

Terrorists terrorize 
Innocents meet demise 
Global problem multiplies 
Worldly leaders theorize 
In the world we have had tribulation

Unending war
Increasing poor 
Famines with disease
Pandemics roar 
Compounding more 
Drown out needy pleas 
In the world we have had tribulation

Crews drink, cruisers sink 
Endangering all who trust 
Fortunes stored on ocean floors 
For barnacles and rust
In the world we have had tribulation

Twenty-thirteen
Reveals and trashes 
The fraud of Nostradamus 
May 15th tornado crashes 
Rancho Brazos houses 
Here in Granbury many have had tribulation

Lingering draught, shrinking lake 
Rain without, authorities take 
Taxing shorelines not so great 
Here in Granbury many have had tribulation

20/20 vision fails to see
Corona little virus - disease 19
Millions taking shelter
Keeping social space 
Unless deemed essential
All must hold in place
In the world we are having tribulation

Jesus said these days would come

But by His victory we’d overcome

From His peace, we can have peace

With His Spirit, we find relief

Through His truth, we get set free

By His grace, we now believe.

He promised His followers,

“These things I have spoken to you, 
that in Me you may have peace. 
In the world you will have tribulation; 
but be of good cheer,I have overcome the world.”

JOHN 16:33 

Christ also said, 

“And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. 
See that you are not troubled; for all these things 
must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation will rise against nation, 
and kingdom against kingdom. 
And there will be famines, pestilences,
and earthquakes in various places....

And then many will be offended, 
will betray one another, 
and will hate one another.
Then many false prophets
 will rise up and deceive many. 
 And because lawlessness will abound,
the love of many will grow cold....

And this gospel of the kingdom 
will be preached in all the world
as a witness to all the nations, 
and then the end will come.....”

MATTHEW 24:6-7,10-12,14