Truths and Lies...

I have been struggling a LOT lately with my perspective on things and people, and then I heard 2^nd Timothy chapter 3.   It was a light bulb moment for me.   

It seems the world has been upside down for me.   Today it seems what is wrong is right, and what is right is wrong.   Truths are now lies, and immorality is freely accepted and encouraged.   We have a “religiosity” but not a true faith and relationship with God.  I say true faith because why we say that we love God, we don’t feel the need to keep his laws.   People will rationalize away what are moral truths and look down on those who hold on to them.  

Reading this was great comfort to me, because we were told this is the way it was going to be.   It shouldn’t be a surprise or cause us stress.    We know and hold these truths, we also know the end game.

Lord:

Draw me nearer to you.  May your truths be evident in my heart.   Let me live like you would have me live.   When I fail at this, please make it abundantly clear to me so I ask forgiveness and can make a mends to those I have offended.   

When I see others not living your natural truths, please let me not judge them.  Rather remind me to pray for them.  Pray that they recognize their faults and that they turn to you.   Lord let me also show them love and kindness.   The kind of love you have shown me.

Amen.

2 Timothy, chapter 3

1)      But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.

2)      People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious,

3)      callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious (promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters), brutal, hating what is good,

4)      traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5)      as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.

6)      For some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,

7)      always trying to learn but never able to reach a knowledge of the truth.

8)      Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so they also oppose the truth—people of depraved mind, unqualified in the faith. 

9)      But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be plain to all, as it was with those two.

Boy if this doesn't sound like the world today, I don’t know what does!

God Bless and peace out!