Drought

2 Timothy 4:3 “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.”

 

History has shown that this warning by the Apostle Paul in this epistle to Timothy has reoccurred to some extent various times over the ages (i.e. the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the French Revolution and the rise of Atheism). There have been spiritual droughts, but God always kept a remnant somewhere and faith-based revivals brought the people back to a righteous relationship with their Creator and Savior. No God-fearing individual and Follower of Christ desires to live in a time when the sound doctrine of the Word of God in Holy Scripture is laid aside for flawed human existentialism that focuses on immoral pleasures, power, pride, and possessions, where to stand upon the commandments, statutes and teaching of the Bible will not be put up with. Yet, where the light of Truth fails to shine in this fallen world, the darkness of sin and unbelief will fill the space. 

 

John 3:19-20 “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.”

 

God is good, and evil is the absence of God. Even though the Creator of the heavens, the cosmos and the earth is all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful and ever-present, sin and evil exists in the heart of man and they do not want their sins exposed as willful inequity and malicious trespasses against their Maker. Those who have put themselves as sovereign Ruler upon the throne of their life have no room for any higher authority to answer to, whether they exist or not. In reality, they only what to hear what they want to hear. So, those fallen in sin individuals and groups that love darkness and their deeds of darkness that act out of their perverted life, pretend that either their Maker - Almighty God in heaven doesn’t exist, or they make up and fashion a god that fits their depraved mind, allowing them to do whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want, with whoever they want. They gather teachers and preachers to spin the truth for a lie and tickle their ears.  As the Cole Porter song  declares, “The world has gone mad today and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today … anything goes”.

 

Romans 1:28-32 “Just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”

 

Just look around to see and hear the social chaos of this day's spiritual drought. People are thirsty for the Truth of God. Still, Hebrews 9:26-28 proclaims that Christ has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him. If serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Dead to sin and alive in Christ. In God we trust.

 

In Christ, Brian