What is the believer to do in a day of lawlessness and apostasy such as we face today, when “judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off,” when “truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter”? It is a day when “evil men and seducers ... wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived,” and when “he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey.” Our Lord warned that “because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Can we believers live for the glory of Christ in such days? Yes, His grace is sufficient, and more than sufficient. Recall that before the flood, when “the wickedness of man was great in the earth,” when “every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,” in that dark day, “Noah walked with God,” and Enoch “had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Let us, as they did, take grace from God, “and be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”
Walk with God, when all around
Darkness and evil prevail?
Yes, strong in grace, looking to Him,
The Christ, who will never fail.
Isa. 59:14; 2 Tim. 3:13; Isa. 59:15; Matt. 24:12; Gen. 6:5,9; Heb. 11:5; Rom. 12:2.