Thoughts...

I was just pondering about some issues which I had read recently..then happened tt i recently read these 2 passages in the bible.. Eph 4 and 2 Tim 3..

It just struck me that in the bible, it's recorded quite definitely that as the last days approach..Godlessness will be more and more apparent... no one.. can said to be said to be 'immunized' from it...not even leaders/pastors.. i thought that the acts and attitudes described in v1-4 are really quite terrible.. but what is even worse i thought would be v5..'to have a form of godliness but denying its power'..saw the msg version also for v5 'They'll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they're animals'..

That's even more terrible because if they claim to be 'Christians'.. they will be 'hiding' behind the name of God to carry out wrongful acts.. and that not only affect themselves, but it could actually affect other believers as well as cause pre-believers to become more skeptical and cynical of God...

Quite upset when I think of that because there are so many friends and my family whom I hope that they will get to know the wonderful God I've known..who will love and bless them the same way which He has done for me..but because of a few bad 'apples' who might have existed.. it might create an 'excuse' for people to disregard the Christian faith..

But believe that God cannot be mocked.. as v9 said they will be exposed and their folly will be clear to everyone.. just pray that even as that happens, God will protect and guard the faith of His believers and those who have yet to believe in Him, help them not to have their hearts hardened because of that.. but rather help them see the goodness of His people who are living according to His Word and be drawn closer to Him!

2 Timothy 3
Godlessness in the Last Days
1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
6They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

Read Eph 4 too.. v13-15 struck me that in order to stand firm in what I believe in and not be caused to waver by whatever I hear from the 'Godlessness in the last days' is to 'reach unity in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God'.. thought this might mean to 1) continue to have new experiences with God (pray more.. not just bank on past experiences) and 2) grow in knowledge in WOG.. hmm thought shld be more inquisitive to discover what God really mean in His Words and to try to apply WOG to the happenings around.. think need to delve deeper n deeper..hope to do it tog with bro n sis around.. think only as iron sharpens iron,one man sharpens another..

Eph 4:13-16
13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Pray that God will guard my heart.. my life.. not perfect and is sinful too, but pray that as best as i can, God will help me be blameless before Him..