“Same as it ever was.”  I remember that specific phrase from some pop song (I think from the 80’s).

I’ll get back to that in a minute but first, a question:  when’s the last time you gave thanks specifically for, say, living in a free country?

Our founding fathers’ generation and the first few to follow did many times each hour  I bet.

Even six or eight generations later, I bet they were giving thanks for that at least every week.

Then, a few generations later, I’ll bet that slowly waned to every month.

Then every year.

And the past few generations have gotten so used to living in a free country that we’ve largely taken it for granted.

Because it’s all we’ve ever known.

Did you know the same can become the case with our salvation and the Christian life?

With each generation of Christian, church-going families, there is almost always a marked decrease in the enthusiasm and fervor and active gratitude for, and interest in, the things of God.

Because it’s all they’ve ever known.  The later generations have been born and raised in such a way that church and God and the Bible is all they’ve ever known as a way of life.

But here’s the thing, here’s the hook, here’s the twist that trips up too many people:  just because something’s always been, that doesn’t mean that’s how it’ll always be.

May we never grow jaded or come to take for granted the amazing, immeasurable gift we have in salvation or the true treasure of the Bible.  And regarding those who haven’t yet come to know the Lord in the first place, may we double our focus and efforts to lovingly give them the truth of the Gospel so they won’t remain deceived in thinking that nothing’s going to really change since things have largely always been as they are now.

• “Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming?  For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.’  For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.  But the present heavens and earth by His word are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.” (2 Peter 3:3-7)

I think I know what those “last-days mockers and know-it-all’s” Peter predicted in his second epistle will sound and look a lot like:

Trust me… no, trust God that the “same ol’, same ol'” of the past several thousand years will not last forever.

Change is coming.

A really, really, really BIG change.

May we live each day in anticipation of and preparation for that massive change.  Both in terms of our own walk with the Lord and also “snatching out of the fire” (Jude 23) as many unbelievers as possible (i.e., simply living out and sharing the truth of the Bible with them and God will do the snatching).

Eternity awaits.  And the clock is ticking.

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