Can It Get Any Worse?

          Of all of the generations in the past, which one could not have said,"What is this world coming to?"  I hear people say those words today as they shake their heads in unbelief over the things that people are doing.  It isn't just in the atrocities that are performed on a daily basis but even the laws that are passed by governments, both large and small.   Their new laws violate Biblical principles and promote even more sin to be openly displayed not only in our own location but throughout the world.  The lists of things I will not purchase or the places I will not grow, seem to grow each day.  I use the mute button on the television when certain people appear and begin to speak.  It is obvious that abnormally high salaries does not give wisdom.  Sports players and people who have been branded as "celebrities" seem to just be absent of any common sense.  So, maybe we, today, could say the same thing as has previous generations.  "What is this world coming to?"  Romans 3:10-12 says,"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one."   
        The problem is very simple and the cause of that problem is even more visible.  Most simply put, the world is filled with a people who are running away from God as fast as they can.  When you take a large mass of people who do not consider God in any way, then you have what we have today.  There have been many generations in the church who have thought that the Lord Jesus Christ was about to appear at any moment just due to the conditions of the world in their time.  That same feeling pervades the church today.  We don't know how bad it is going to be and if there is a gauge in the Scripture, it would perhaps be the condition of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Judgment finally came and the experience of Lot in that city during the final days gives us a clue as to when it occurred and what happened as a result of it.  So, as you read the paper today, hear the news on the television or see with your own eyes what is happening, realize that the Lord Jesus Christ is going to rectify the problem very soon.  There is a song our choir sings often and it is, "Soon and very soon, we are going to see the king."  Praise God that no matter how bad things are He is always there and there is nothing that surprises Him.  He said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you..."  Hebrews 13:5