At this rate, when Christ returns there won’t be many left to greet him.
He did indeed wonder if, when He returned, He would find faith.
There was a point in His earthly ministry that He had said some hard things and as a result many who had been following Him stopped following anymore.
At that point He turned to the twelve and asked if they would leave too.
“To whom shall we go?” Peter replied, “You have the words of eternal life.”
Now we live in a time when just saying people should have good morals is something people can no longer bear to hear and besides that many now cannot tolerate simply acknowledging biological facts.
There is always a remnant.
When everyone else seems to be going away we can cling to the Lord, and also by our lives say to Him as He proverbially asks us if we will leave too: to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
So cling to the Lord.
Do not be like the men of Benjamin who clung to their brethren who had murdered the women. Do not be lot Lot’s sons-in-law that clung to Sodom.
When you cling to the Lord know that the world will hate you because it first hated Him. We also have His promise that He will not let us be tried beyond what we can bear.
“At this rate, when Christ returns there won’t be many left to greet him.”
Matthew 7:13-14 NIV
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
only a few find it.