2 Timothy 3:1-4
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Today's Thought: Let us listen to the warnings of the Lord of the last days.
The apostle Paul wrote his final epistle two thousand years ago, but the content and spirit of the letter seems truer than ever. The way the apostle describes the society seems to be the one we are living now. People are turning their back from the Lord. The world is devoted in pleasing the one who bewitched her - the devil.
False religions, immoral acts and persecutions are normal occurrences for Christians of old and today. But the Church of the Lord has continued on with the forces of the world not able to destroy her. Even during terrible persecutions, the Church grew. However, in the last days, the spirit of disobedience and selfishness will work double time, not outside the Church, but inside her walls. Christians are starting to fall away from the truth for them to live in a life. It is even hard for Christians to follow simple commandments of the Lord. The devil is on the move creeping on hearts and pews.
We should remember what Christ told the church at Laodicea which had been greatly worldly: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. Let us endeavor to be true to the our Master.
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