For the time is coming when people will not put up with
sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves
teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the
truth and wander away to myths. As for you, always be sober, endure suffering,
do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully. 2 Timothy 4: 3-5
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| "Anger" Aaron Paquette |
I am sad today. Sad that truth is so often swept under the
rug. Sad that our country is in such distress that we are all angry with each
other, calling each other names, and showing intolerance for those closest to
us. The phrase “accumulating for themselves teachers to suit their own desires”
– while true – is less problematic for me than the phrase which follows it, “they
will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.” Therein
lies the sadness I feel.
When we stop listening, we are on dangerous ground. We gather
up all sorts of “spiritual books” and accouterments to prop up the lies we
chose to believe, but doing so only pulls us deeper into mythology of untruth. Untruths
become one’s truth, one’s reality. Perhaps that is what makes me so sad today.
And yet, we have Paul’s sensible advice to Timothy to cling
to. We may not change the mindset of those who fabricate truths for themselves
and wander away. We must simply be
sober, endure the suffering these myths bring upon us, do the work of Jesus,
and carry on. And so we will.
Pray for us.
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