DAD'S RAMBLINGS -- PERILOUS TIMES

DAD'S RAMBLINGS – PERILOUS TIMES

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come..." (II Timothy 3:1)

During the economic meltdown a few years ago when there were so many foreclosures and the stock market dropped, I received an annual report from one of our investments that began with the statement, "We live in perilous times." Perilous times are when things are spiraling out of control.

Paul here is not talking about economic disaster, but of a time of great ungodliness when it seems that society has forsaken everything that is moral and good, and everything is in chaos, spiraling out of control. He gives a description of the people of perilous times. They will be "lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God" (verses 2-4).

Does this sound familiar? It will be a time when people are without any sense of what is good and true and right because God has been eliminated from society.

It is during these challenging times that the we find the answer in verse 14-17: "continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of," staying true to the Scriptures that are "profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."

George Beverly Shea used to sing a song that said, "In times like these, we need the Bible … Be very sure, be very sure, your anchor holds, and grips the solid rock." The way to get through perilous times is to stay true to God's Word, and keep our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love, Dad