Jul 22 2009
Who Will Turn Away From the Truth–Will You?
This morning I was reading 2 Timothy 4:3-4, and was interested in what Paul said. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.”
This isn’t describing unbelievers, but Christians–believers who have already tasted and known that the Lord is good. So what happened to them?
After considering the cost they decided weren’t going to submit to God, doing the hard thing, by which we are truly saved until the end.
I truly believe those who have known the gospel and walked away will receive a greater judgment in hell, because they are not ignorant of God’s grace, but because they tasted and then rejected it.
This Scripture passage reminds me how vital it is to guard our hearts, to enter into our secret place with God, submitting our hearts to Him, stirring up the fire within us, instead of wandering off, becoming lukewarm, and eventually walking away from everything because we’ve deemed it too much of a sacrifice.
What exactly do we think we are sacrificing? Our own way. Elevating ourselves and our plans over the will of God for our lives.
We see it happening all the time, how those who were once hot for God have cooled until they shake their heads and walk away.
Jesus sacrificed everything for us. He left heaven to submit to God so we could receive salvation, deliverance, unconditional love, and intimacy with the Father, and yet we thumb our nose at this amazing gift and say we don’t want it.
Let us examine our hearts, for God says in His Word that the day of grace will soon end, and those who have rejected Him will have no more time to change their minds.
Lord, let them see their end, before it’s too late that they might repent and turn and go God’s way, before time runs out.
Let a word to the wise be sufficient.
Because of His great love,
Nancy
