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
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,”[
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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.
