Last week I accompanied my wife to get her hair done. While I sat waiting I was struck by the gleeful and casual way the hair dresser mentioned that her oldest daughter was expecting a baby by her boyfriend, but they were waiting until after the child is born to get married.
Mind you, they had just finished a conversation of how dedicated her and her husband were in raising their three daughters and a son in a Christian way. Yet when she talked about her daughters pregnancy there was no shock of disappointment in her voice, but rather joy at becoming a grandmother.
This is something I have noticed a lot with families who regularly attend church while wearing their faith on the sleeve with joy. Their sons and daughters date unbelievers, and even live with them, but never get married until a pregnancy occurs.
Sadly, Christians have progressed in our society to the point that having children out of wedlock, experiencing multiple marriages, and sleeping around with multiple partners is as normal to them as it is for nonChristians.
Jesus told us that the last days would be like the last days before the flood,
“”But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels of Heaven, but only My Father. But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark. And they did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.””
(Matthew 24:36-39)
Well we have arrived at the moment Jesus warned us would come. Add this troubling aspect of Christians mimicking the secular world, to everything else going on and one can only come to the realization that we are the generation HE warned us about.
Am I The only one keeping an eye out fir the proverbial animals to start lining up for an exodus from this place?
I have much more to say about this, but I’ll leave you with this thought of how Jesus gave us a picture of the past so we can recognize our future.
Objects in the mirror are much closer than they appear.
Maranatha!
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