Today's Daily Lesson comes from 2 Timothy chapter 3 verses 12 through 17:
12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
I was speaking yesterday with a friend about all the social upheaval we have witnessed over the course of the last three or so years and now the prospect of even more protest, turmoil and division. The time is ripe now for revolutionary, and anarchist revolt and strong man response.
Now then is also time for Christians to stay firmly grounded in our faith and exhorted by our Lord's teachings. Many from all sides would wish to deceive and delude us into thinking that they and their way is the only way to salvation. As Jesus said, "The hearts of many will grow cold." Many will fall away from the way and things of Christ, looking for salvation in violence or strong arm tactics, with evil going from bad to worse. But as Jesus said, "They who endure to the end shall be saved."
So now is the time for serious and rigorous study of the Bible. It is time "for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness." It is time to be made "wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus."
We are "the salt of the earth", Jesus said. "But if salt loses its saltiness then it is good for nothing." We are "the light of the world". So we must study, and train, and pray for transformation so as the light within would not be turned to darkness, nor love turned to hate, nor good turned to evil.
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