We humans have been inclined to swallow propaganda since the serpent convinced Adam and Eve they would improve their lives by disobeying God and eating from that one forbidden tree. With today’s abundant access to information—both true and false—we’ve reached the point Paul warned us about nearly 2,000 years ago:
“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.” (2 Timothy 4:3-5 NIV)
When I hear some of the things said by friends and family who don’t seek God’s will in their lives, don’t try to obey His commands, don’t even believe in His existence, I’m dismayed by how easily they resemble “reeds swayed by the wind.” (Matthew 11:7) Just as I can’t control the way the wind blows, I can’t control where one chooses to get today’s “information.” But I can pray that God will still that wind and convince my gullible friends and family of their need to ignore their itching ears and stand firm upon God’s Rock. All truth lines up with Jesus’s teaching, if we can only start there.
I pray I can “do the work of an evangelist,” calmly, soundly, even occasionally using words, to represent the One Who is the only Truth that matters. I pray you can do the same.
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