Luke 18:8 when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?
Jesus posed
this question just after the story of the widow woman who cried “Avenge me of
my adversary.” Trying to teach his disciples the warning of this earth becoming
so detached from God and Moral absolutes, Jesus lead them to the thought and
question: “Will there come a time on this planet that we humans disconnect
ourselves from FAITH? Can we become so carnal that we disrespect the spiritual?
The
Humanist Francisco Petrarch in the 14th Century coined the Name Dark
Ages though speaking of the falling and loss of the Italian Culture and
Literature upon Europe: his hypothesis soon was used by the church to explain
the decay of the Moral and spiritual truth in society.
This FEAR was
Real since we first read of this very disconnect from God during the days of
Noah: “GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented God that he had
made man on the earth (Gen 6:5-6).
This was
later repeated by man in Gen 11 when they thought to create a way by imagination
to eradicate the very thought of God, his laws and truth from earth. They even
thought to make their OWN heaven. Could they have so disconnected themselves
from spirituality till they would have built an earth void of FAITH?
Journey
through the Bible and find every great man of God became great by challenging
man to repent, fleeing from sin and stop selfish destructive living. Read history and find every great Philosopher
or inventor who challenged the status quo such as the Earth is round, not flat;
we can fly, or germs were the cause of illness. They were ridiculed, imprisoned, and even
killed. Nostradamus, George Washington
and Booker T Washington called Nations to change from evil ways. Sir Winston
Churchill, Dr Martin Luther King and hundreds of men and women who became great
did so NOT by becoming LIKED, but by doing RIGHT.
It is
possible in 2012 that we are on our way in America – in Europe and the world
that our fallacious flirtation with funny, fancy and filth is pushing Faith
right OUT of our Families, Finances and Future. America just 50 years ago had a deeper and
higher respect and appreciation to church, preachers and faith than they do
today. Ladies and Gentlemen; “When the
Son of Man cometh, shall he FIND Faith on earth?”
This
sobering question is not meant to leave us depressed, but rather to shake us
away from following the “cows to the slaughter.” Allow me to challenge you to leave off the
excuses why you don’t attend church like you should anymore. Let me provoke you to find your faith,
increase your faith and add to your faith.
We cannot just sit by and allow the Faith of God and faith in God to disappear.
“Faith
comes by hearing a preacher preaching what thus saith the Word of God” (Rom
10:17). Let me motivate you to tune your
ear to hear a real man of God today seeding the word of God into your spirit
till you can rise to BELIEVE that God can and will bring a miracle crusade of
Faith back to America again.
© 2012 Dr Tim McClure
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