Monday, February 19, 2024

Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

  • Explore your fears and what’s behind them.

  • Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.

  • List out all that you are grateful for.

  • Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

Bible Text

2 Timothy 3:1-5

1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Reflection & Application

  • What are the characteristics of people in the last days and how is this an apt picture of people today?

  • What can I learn from the fact that someone who has the “appearance of godliness” can be characterized as “lovers of self,” “lovers of money,” and “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God”?

  • If Apostle Paul were to describe me, as he described the people in the last days, how would he describe me?  What am I a “lover of”?

  • Apostle Paul warns Timothy to “avoid such people” who have an “appearance of godliness but [deny] its power.” How does this warning apply to me?