daily java

Daily Java:

Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing!
    The faithful have vanished from the earth!
Neighbors lie to each other,
    speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.
May the Lord cut off their flattering lips
    and silence their boastful tongues.
They say, “We will lie to our hearts’ content.
    Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”

The Lord replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless,
    and I have heard the groans of the poor.
Now I will rise up to rescue them,
    as they have longed for me to do.”
The Lord’s promises are pure,
    like silver refined in a furnace,
    purified seven times over.
Therefore, Lord, we know you will protect the oppressed,
    preserving them forever from this lying generation,
even though the wicked strut about,
    and evil is praised throughout the land. (Psalm 12)

It feels like the world has gone to hell. Reading the headlines, listening to the news on TV or the radio, it just seems like it has gotten worse.

And you wonder how long will the Lord let it continue.

Those who are godly seem to be disappearing. People in church are accepting things that are wrong and are doing them as a matter of course. Even the leadership are sliding to  this pit in language and action.

It is getting harder and harder to find someone who is godly, or at least seems to be godly.

Jesus had a lot of pushback against his ministry because of the fact that he associated with “sinners” and people of dubious reputation. And he did. But people use this to show that just because we act right, doesn’t mean we are. And they are right.

But at the same time, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of holiness present, even among church members.

So what do we do? The world seems to be going its own way and taking the church with it. You have to wonder if in fifty years, will there be a recognizable church at all. Will the church of the Lord Jesus Christ be anything like what he wants? Or will it be so diluted by ungodliness that it will be unrecognizable?