Understanding From God

As I was studying my SS lesson last night, the LORD really helped me understand a few things that I thought might help someone else. We read 2 Timothy 4:1-4In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage-with great patience and careful instruction, for the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine, Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

A church that I used to attend some things happened and it was like the leaders turned their ears away from the truth or didn't care to hear it. I felt like they were surrounding themselves with people who would think like them instead of listening to scripture and reasoning. This incident has deeply hurt my family. My boys don't want to go to SS at our new church.

I pray that God will use this verse to help me teach my family that we are to (as the authors of my SS lesson put it) "declare the truths of God's Word even when it is not convenient, & we must endure long suffering, for God's enemies constantly will test our resolve and try to keep us from sharing the gospel."

Leslie