Psalm XIV

" To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. " (Psalm 14, KJV)

PSALM  XIV

 A Corrupt World and a Righteous God

 Only a fool in his heart declares
There is no God. The creed of the fool
Is in his heart, and the fruit of his life
Is corrupt. He is an atheist in ridicule.

The Lord makes a search for righteous
People like Diogenes with his lantern
Walking the streets in broad day light
Looking for an honest man to discern.

A deluge of evil impacts the finding,
And God finds depravity of the race
Rank and rotten like a carcass whose
Morals and smell corrupts every place.

The atheist are confused that God is
With the company of His Son whom
The humble trust for salvation
And escape from eternal doom.

“No eye has seen, nor ear has heard,
No mind conceived what God
Has prepared for those who love Him.”
And who now sleep beneath the sod.

(c) Rex H. Henderson 2003

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