WITHOUT LOVE

10/28/2021

OCTOBER 28 - START YOUR DAY RIGHT DEVOTION

2 Timothy 3:3 Without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good.

WITHOUT LOVE

In the last days, God’s people must be prepared to face an overwhelming rise in ungodliness as history enters its final stages.

Paul prophesies that Satan will bring great destruction on the family. Children will be “disobedient to their parents” (2 Timothy 3:2), and men and women will be “without love” (Greek astorgoi). This can be translated “without family affection” and refers to a lack of natural tenderness and love, as shown by a mother who rejects her children or kills her baby, a father who abandons his family or children who neglect their aging parents (Luke 1:17).
Men and Women will become lovers of money and pleasure and will pursue their own selfish desires with no thought or concern for God or others (2 Timothy 3:2). Many will consider parenthood, with its demands for sacrificial love and nurture, an unworthy or undignified task (2 Timothy 3:2-4). Parents with true love for their children will be rare; they will be replaced more and more by those who are selfish and brutal and who abandon their children, emotionally and physically (Psalms 113:9; 127:3-5; Proverbs 17:6; Titus 2:4-5; 2 Timothy 4:3-4)
If Christian parents are to safeguard their families in the difficult times of the last days, they must protect them from evil influences (Acts 20:28-30) and teach them to reject the corrupt values of the society in which they live (Acts 2:40; Romans 12:1-2). They must accept God’s plan for the family (Ephesians 5:21-25) and live differently from those who do not serve God and follow Christ (Leviticus 18:3-5; Ephesians 4:17). Christians, as well as their families, must truly become strangers and aliens on earth (Hebrews 11:13-16), even while they continue to pray for and reach out with compassion to those who are spiritually lost without a personal relationship with Christ.

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