2 Timothy 2:22-3:5 King James Version

22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give themrepentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

I love seeing how scripture back then relates to us currently.

Right now we have seen evidence of what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right play out. Turning and rejecting God even those in the Christian faith have walked away.

How someone who has known and walked with God stops and no longer needs Him especially in these days is beyond my comprehension. But this is what is going on around us.

We have a huge number of homeless in our own backyard and yet we do nothing to help them. Even those claiming to be for charity are really after themselves and what they can get and how little they give back to those in need.

The lack of discipline of children and their need to be all about me is astounding. Schools cannot step in to lean a hand of correcting a child’s behavior because the child may cry wolf. They are worried about being sued by said child and their parents.

The world is so vastly different that we are so worried about putting someone’s noses out of joint and we tiptoe around people. Worried to cause offense so easily even though not your goal. You are just having conversation that people may take out of context. When did we let fear decided for us and control us.

We have let fear take over our lives in such an unhealthy way and turned such a blind eye that the next generation is going to be in a mountain of trouble.

We took God out of church, schools, and the work place and we need to put Him back and make Him number one in our lives.

In the book of Revelation we have this verse below.

Revelation 2:4 KJV

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Our first love should be Jesus and if not then we need to make Him our first love as found in Matthew 22:37. With everything that is in you, you should love the Lord thy God.

Matthew 22:37 KJV

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Then in Matthew 6:33 Put God first.

Matthew 6:33 KJV

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Doing so is what made America great in the first place is because we put God first in all we did and He blessed the nation as found in Psalm 33:12.

Psalm 33:12 King James Version

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Let’s get back to putting God first in our lives and everywhere else we go each day.

God bless you and your loved ones. Recommend Billy Graham’s book Storm Warning to read.