Vance Havner told of visiting a dimly lit restaurant with a friend. Vance commented to him, "It is so dark in here I can't read the menu." The friend replied, "You will get use to the dark."
Something like that has happened all across our country, we have got used to the dark. We have become accustomed to the ever changing society that we live in. We watch things on television that thirty years ago we would have blushed if we had seen the same thing while in mixed company. The decency standard has been lowered to the point that it often is embarrassing. You now can see more cleavage in church than you once could see on television. And that is just one thing we have grown accustomed to seeing. Divorce at one time was an embarrassment to a family, it is the accepted norm now.
Do you remember the emotion that was aroused over the Roe vs Wade decision. It was unthinkable that a woman could end a baby's life. Now it is done thousands of time each year. So becoming accustomed to that thought, we precede to having the baby be partially born and then we kill it. That is acceptable with many. Read the reports of the votes of Obama when he was first in politics and you will readily see that not only is he in favor of partial-birth abortions but in favor of killing one that accidentally survives the botched abortion.
Under no circumstance am I in favor of abortion except when the mother's life is in danger, but I almost wish we could back up things just a little and have the mother of all of these abortionists have the same believe as they have and then they would have been aborted and the world would be a much better place.
Something like that happens in our churches on a regular basis. A person gets saved during the revival with large crowds present, sees the same good attendance on Sunday Morning and then looks around on Wednesday night and asks where are the people who have been Christian a long, long time. What would you tell him, "Don't worry you will get over it, too?"
God, have mercy on us.
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