Onward

DEVOTION
2 TIMOTHY
ONWARD

2 Tim 4:3-5
3 For the time will come when men 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. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
NIV
I has come, it is now, without question men are suiting their own desires. Large crowds now gather around in great numbers of these supposed teachers who are in fact speaking words which please those itching ears. I see it every time I flip channels and come across those men in their overly expensive suits with such charismatic personalities, large smiles and huge crowds waiting with baited breath for the next wonderful false truth. I can understand the temptations of these men who desire the great crowds, who pour money on them as if they were gods. Fame and fortune are popular tools of Satan which he uses with such skill. He will give some men greatest in order to gather flocks of unsuspecting souls into his realm of false truths and ultimately away from God and into destruction. I shall not fail prey to either the teaching of those men nor to the temptation of greatest by the deceiver of men. I must keep my head in the game, in all situations, knowing my task, knowing my calling and observing the hand of God at work in my life. Anything I have, anything I do, anything I achieve will be only but the grace of my Lord. I do not want the fame nor the fortune which comes from the efforts of man or by the deception of Satan. However, if God moves in that direction in my life, I must move with him. At this point all I really want is to get the truth of what he has instilled in me out into the hearts and minds of others, showing them God, showing them his truth. What becomes of me in the course of my efforts to obey God happens. Whether nothing comes of it or something I am content with knowing I am following his directions. It may even cost me rather than gain me anything, but that is not for me to question, but only to obey. If it means I need to endure any hardship, then so be it, but I believe in my heart I am doing the work of and evangelist as well. Both books so far, not only explore the truths of God, but include the road to salvation and an invitation to join the kingdom of God. If that is not the work of and evangelist than what is? I think at times I am not discharging my duties with as much energy as I such, yet the Spirit is my guide and the light to my path. He also is