The inspired man of God laments: “Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth.” Psalm 12:1, where the verb “ceaseth” once in the King James Version of the Bible is translated “come to an end!”

Frightening!

Even Jesus incisively asks: “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8

In a reenactment of the Story of Sodom and Gomorrah, “Can fifty righteous men be found?” (Today’s numbers may be different, but the principle is the same.) “How about forty?” All the way down to “ten!”

Things there being in such a spiritually sad state … (“the godly man having ceased”) fierce Judgment fell, in the form of fire and brimstone! See Genesis 19:24.

Contextually, Psalm 12:4 even has the world’s masses saying, boasting … “With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?”

And Psalm 12:8, the Poem’s last verse, very aptly suggests: “The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.”

Look around, folks!

But Preacher, one might ask, “WHAT CAN I DO, A BELIVER IN CHRIST, IN TGHE MIDST OF ALL THIS UNGODLINESS?”

Answer … Be the salt of the earth! (Salt retards corruption, if you will remember from history.

Matthew 5:13 … “Ye are the salt of the earth,” Jesus’ Words. (Do not lose your saltiness, savour!)

Answer … Be the light of the world! Light conquers, dispels darkness! Godly men and women make darkness “uncomfortable.”

Jesus again … Matthew 5:14 … “Ye are the light of the world.”

Light and salt are excellent illustrations of what WE can be as earth’s armies of godly men dwindle away.

Hopefully, prayerfully … to slow the rot, the decay we see all around!

Just some thoughts this morning from a computer keyboard in a motel room. Typed while pondering tonight’s Revival Sermon in a nearby Bible-believing Church.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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