He is the only hope. (Romans 1 v16 )

Gradually moral standards are being eroded, why? ,why indeed,not only moral standards ,the secularisation of society is increasing, it is gradual ,within my life time, there has been a steady change.As mankind  turns away from God things will not get better.Paul writing to Romans  in the first chapter, of humanities sinfulness taking  over and a turning from God,and turning to so much wickedness, that we  read, God give them over,in other words He took His restraining common grace away,It is a judgement,as one writer comments,'When God's protection goes,the beasts are ready to maraud.And just as man is powerless to recover the truth,so he is powerless to recognize and to resist error'.I sense very strongly as regards my country of Ireland,who have been betrayed,by awful abuses towards young people ,by those who were their spiritual leaders, that a vacuum now exists, the restraints are being thrown off ,and as Alec Motyer writes,'The vacuum does not remain unfilled', and who knows what will take its place, the moral standards will deteriorate.Like most Western nations ,things that were unacceptable are now not only acceptable,but applauded. So it is, as never before ,we must hold fast to the word of God,and the moral values therein,we must be the light in the darkness,and the salt to hold back the corruptness that is abounding on all sides. And above all else to proclaim without favour or fear ,the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,for it is He and He alone who is the only hope for this sinful world..