2 Timothy 3:1-5 NASB But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 

Today I was at my parents’ house with my four month old baby, and my brother’s baby that is just 10 days younger. Needless to say, it was a noisy house today! No one has to teach babies to cry, they come by it naturally. Where there are babies there will be crying.

Paul said there would be difficult days ahead. Why? “For men will be lovers of self…” Where there are people, there will be sin! The difficult times we are living in are a natural consequence of our sinful human nature.

But that doesn’t mean we give up, and it doesn’t mean we give in to sin. Just like parents spend a lot of time trying to get their babies to stop crying, Christians should be committed to following Christ and setting aside our sin (neither task is easy!). As Paul said: “You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,” 2 Timothy 3: 14

-Kevi

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