We have a Book of moral exactitude and certitude, yet live in a world of moral inexactness and uncertainty. Ours is a time when many people cant seem to decide what is right or what is wrong, what is moral or what is immoral, what is white or what is black. Relativism rules the day!

Yet God's instruction manual for life and living, the Bible, is filled with commandments to be obeyed and wrongs to be shunned. God has no difficulty in defining what is right and what is wrong. And God did just that.

Today we have religious leaders who openly, and aggressively, reject the moral standards of Scripture in order to promote their own particular lifestyle. Our times remind us of the times of the prophets in Israel and Judah, when lonely voices (the prophets) cried out against all wickedness and evil, to the deaf ears of people who refused to hear. The people were transgressing the commandments of God and seemingly oblivious to it. The prophets seemed strange, their denunciations the pronouncements of religious fanatics. The people were happy and satisfied, fulfilling any and every lust of their hearts, while ignoring the warnings of impending judgment.

Yet disaster fell! God's judgment would not be stayed! And the people perished in their iniquity!

Will disaster befall our generation of evil and wicked doers? Yes! Is it coming? Indeed! Will people perish in sin? Without question!

The transmission of sexual disease grows unabated. Shootings occur in our streets. The horrible carnage of abortion continues. Violence comes into our homes through mass media. Injustice is perpetrated, and who cries against it? Where are the voices of righteousness crying out against sexual immorality, dishonesty, injustice, or any and all moral evil. Voices seem muted. And where are the people who will heed such warnings?

Consider gay marriage: Can one imagine former generations even entertaining such notions? Now we have presidential candidates publicly advocating such things former generations wouldnt have even whispered about. Shame upon us for tolerating such!

Our time is like Isaiahs time, and his pronouncement particularly applicable: Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put  bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (Isaiah 5:20-21).

Can any of this be reversed? Yes - lets determine to move forward, full-steam, with the good news of the gospel to save men from sin.

John M. Brown