What to do when things get bad

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,  - 2 Timothy 3:13-14

As much as we might wish differently things are not going to get better. The evil men and imposters in the visible church are only going to get worser and worser. Deception is only going to deceive more and more people. To be honest, unless God sends revival, there is not much hope in the here and now.

But, funny enough, our responsibilities are not going to change. We don't have the option of saying, 'things are so bad I'm just going to give up.'

‘You must continue’ Paul says, ‘in the things you have learned and been assured of because you know where they came from.’

When I we consider all that God has done for us and all that He has taught us and shown us we really ought to be ready to just keep plugging away.

The vast majority of us are never going to be standouts. Most of us will never be superstars. Very few of us are going to be published authors and even fewer are going to going to have books written about us.

For most of us one word sums up our task as the world falls apart – continue.