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God
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good” (Psalm 14:1).
The downfall and degeneration of society, the lack of law and order, violence and corruption, and of all moral decency, is a direct result of a loss of God-consciousness and of the giving up of God’s Word. The world has always been characterized by lawlessness and “no fear of God before their eyes” (Romans 3:18). But today it has affected the Christian profession and, sad to say, even true believers.
We are living in the day which the Apostle Paul describes in his last epistle. “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come … . Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof” (2 Timothy 3:1, 5). Read the rest of the description down to the end of verse 9, and I think you will quickly see the parallel. This is the result of a loss of a sense of God’s presence and His holiness.
More than ever, we need to live in the conscious sense of the presence of God, spending time each day reading His Word, speaking to Him in prayer, and, as Jude writes, “Keep yourselves in the love of God” (verse 21).
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