LIVING IN PERILOUS TIMES
Scripture Reading--2 Timothy 3:1
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come"
( emphasis added ).
If you spend any time reading the newspaper or watching TV news, you're aware of the perilous times in which we're living. We see conflict and war between nations. Natural disasters have devastated parts of our country and regions of the world. Our society is a moral cesspool, and the Church is quickly slipping into apostasy. But God's Word assures us that the world has to get worse before it gets better. For the child of God--no matter what happens--the best is yet to come.
But in the meantime, what are we to do as Christian families? Must we cave in to the pressures of a world that has gone crazy? Or does God have an answer? We cannot afford to look to the "experts" of our day. Many claim to have the answer, but the problem is that they don't know the real questions! Without a doubt, we must get our direction from God's Word.
During this week's devotional times, we'll consider how to protect our families from the flood tide of evil that threatens to destroy us. Every Christian parent has the God-given responsibility to stand between his family and anything that threatens to harm them--whether physical, mental, emotional, social, or spiritual.
A pioneer family arrived in a frontier town looking for a place to call home. The father, who was driving the covered wagon, asked a man on the street how many saloons were in the town.
"Four!" the man replied enthusiastically.
Slapping the horses with the reins, the father yelled, "Git up!"
The man cried, "Where ya goin', mister?"
The father hollered back, "I have three sons in this wagon, and I won't raise them in a town with four saloons." And away they went.
That dad knew something about protecting his family from evil!
BIBLE READING: Read Genesis 6 and see how Noah protected his family.
--Jack Palmer--
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