What Can God's People Do In A Reprobate
Age?
Habakkuk 3:2
With anguish of heart I am compelled to
plainly declare that we are living in a generation under the judgment of God!
It is impossible for me to imagine any generation in history more totally
engulfed in spiritual blindness, moral perversion, and self-serving chaos and
rebellion. No generation in history has been given more light than ours. Yet,
ours is a generation that chooses darkness. I fear God has given this
generation what it has desired - Darkness! Like Ephraim, ours is a generation
joined to its idols, and God has left it alone. This is a reprobate age! Well
may those who believe God pray the prayer of Habakkuk: "O LORD, I have
heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the
years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy."
"O LORD, revive thy work in the midst
of the years!" The word translated "revive" might better be
translated "preserve alive." In these dark days I do not so much hope
for great, sweeping revival as I do that God will simply preserve his church
and his truth alive. This he has promised he will do!
"In the midst of the years make
known." Let us pray that our God will yet be pleased to make known to this
generation the gospel of his grace and glory in Christ. Oh,that
God would make known his greatness, his grace, and his glory in Jesus Christ!
Let us give ourselves relentlessly to the business of making him known. Maybe
he will be pleased to use us to that end.
"In wrath remember mercy!" There
is yet a remnant of chosen, redeemed sinners who must be called. Let us plead
with God, putting him in remembrance of his covenant,that
he may have mercy upon some in this dark day.
In this reprobate age, all who know and
trust Christ are bound to give thanks unto God (II Thess.
Don Fortner