5.8-How do we cope during our difficult days?

5.8-

Principle #7

These are difficult days because of people’s choices.

The center of our life is God, not money, hobbies, success, writing books, soccer, football or any other thing.   There is a common time and place that God’s children get together for listening to the word and praising God and taking the Lord’s Supper.  That time is not to be knocked out by anything.  God and His worship with His people is a primary life decision.

We are not happy on any weekend that you have missed the blessing of being a part of a loving church.  This does disappoint us as parents and grand parents who are disciples of Jesus.   We are praying all of you will be a part of a church family and know brothers and sisters there and enjoy the fellowship that is there.  We are always praying about this.

2 Timothy 3.

3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

⁶ They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, ⁷ always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. ⁹ But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

A Final Charge to Timothy

¹⁰ You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, ¹¹ persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. ¹² In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, ¹³ while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, ¹⁵ and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the servant of God^[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Get through difficult days be relying on the example of those who have taught you about Jesus and by being trained by the Scripture which is breathed from the breath of God through the inspired writers of the New Testament.