What to do in Difficult Days.

Paul told Timothy that "in the last days difficult times would come" (2Tim.3:1) and he would find himself on a sea of corruption and compromise. The descriptions given in verses 1-11 of 2Timothy 3 are eerily familiar as men today are "lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving...without self-control, haters of good...lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God..." In this toxic environment Paul promises Timothy and every person who seeks to live godly in Christ Jesus that we will be persecuted (2Tim.3:12). The solution Paul offered to dealing with a wicked and worsening world is timeless truth, "You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of...the sacred writings which are able to give you wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus" (2Tim.3:14-15). He punctuates the priority of God's Word in the familiar close to the chapter in verses 16-17. To be thoroughly equipped for every good work when the world is wicked, the man/woman of God needs to stay connected to the WORD of GOD.