Issue 25 - Day 6

2 Timothy 4

2 Timothy 4:2-5
2)  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3)  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4)  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5)  But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Following yesterday’s rather depressing reading, yet again we are told how people will turn from the truth. People would rather hear made up stories than the truth of God’s word. This is evident around us. It has become ever easier to find “entertainment”. How many times have we held events at the church and those we invite have instead stayed in to watch TV, or gone out to the cinema. Maybe even sat down with a good book, or surfed the internet. None of these things are wrong in themselves, but they are fables, made up stories, that people prefer to hear rather than the truth. No-one likes the truth because it means they have to change.

What do we have to do therefore? Have patience, and keep speaking the word of God in every situation. God has given us a task to fulfil, our ministry. It is to take the gospel to everywhere we go, and to everybody we meet. We will come under attack. Throughout history men and women of God have suffered and died because they would not give up following him. we must do the work of the evangelist. We must stay true to God’s word. Do not be dragged into the world’s view, loving fiction more than God.