For This Unprecedented Age...

For this unprecedented age of immorality; 

 of abortion, adultery, homosexuality, 

transgenderism, mass confusion, child neglect and abuse, 

agnosticism, atheism, theism and paganism 

on and on it goes; 

there is only one cure! 

Repentance and belief in the One True God! 

Then as belief yields fruits of repentance/obedience 

to Him through His Word, only then can any real cure begin!

In this age of unprecedented distraction

esp. through the buffet of options offered through modern technology,

God's still, small Voice can be drowned out

until it goes away...!!!🙏🙏

Without careful, prayerful awareness we are all at the risk

of drowning the quietness with just enough noise

to keep us from thinking too deeply/aka, hearing God speak!

(I use the phrase 'unprecedented' cautiously but also with awareness

to the reality that due to modern technology

 and approval by the powers that be, access to

certain atrocities has become medically promoted/commonplace

like never before!)

Thus, thanks in part to modern technology

we are living in an age of unprecedented opportunity and opposition!

The cure for the problem is what it has always been...

2 Chron.7:14

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves

 and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,

 then I will hear from heaven,

 and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

The page below read a few days ago,(from the book mentioned here and here)

first sparked this poem from a train of thought that has been

ongoing recently..

.(and this book was written in the '60's!!

The line that esp. hits home is this one;

'and they will be tomorrow's leaders')

And also in part by yesterday's devotion

from Pathways to His Presence by Charles Stanley

For this unprecedented age

Where, at epidemical rates

Mortal rejects its Creator

And fundaments of Truth, debates

Or altogether disregards

What once was reverenced, with awe

Choosing darkness, rather than light

Without godly order or law…

For this unprecedented age

Of lack of fear and faith in He

Who is the Saviour of the soul

The sole hope of humanity

Where churches, once ringing with praise

And sounds of glorious gospel truth

Have been abandoned for the gasp

Of worldly pleasure and pursuit

For this unprecedented age

Of pride going before the fall

As nations, founded on God’s Word

Promote abandoning it all

To be gods, wise in their own eyes

But are in fact, blind leading blind

Where deceit, like a gaping pit

Swallows the unbelieving mind

For this unprecedented age

Of impropriety endorsed

And applauded by worldly-wise

Without guilt and shame, or remorse

For this unprecedented age

Of wolves wearing sheep-like disguise

Soothing, smoothing the inner prick

With unbiblical, sweet, sweet lies

For this unprecedented age

Of unbelief, we pray and pray

We, who with faith and fear believe

In the approach of That Great Day

Oh Lord, we pray and pray that ‘they’

Would repent and believe in You

And that we who believe would be

A vessel that your Light shines through

© Janet Martin

2 Cor.4:1-6

Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, 

we do not lose heart. 

2 Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; 

we do not use deception,

 nor do we distort the word of God.

 On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly 

we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

 3 And even if our gospel is veiled,

 it is veiled to those who are perishing.

 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers,

 so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, 

who is the image of God. 

5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, 

and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 

6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”[a] 

made his light shine in our hearts

 to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory 

displayed in the face of Christ.

Trust and Obey