ASLC Devotions -- Thursday

2 Timothy 3:8-9
⁸As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith, also oppose the truth. ⁹But they will not make much progress, because, as in the case of those two men, their folly will become plain to everyone.

The trouble with a passage like this is that we can get hung up on questions like "What is the truth?" and "How do we know what is folly and what is faith?" The previous verses give us some clue that the divide centered on such things as people who are "lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, ⁴treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit."

It would seem that no matter how you define truth or folly, these descriptors provide a pretty good clue as to how we shouldn't act toward one another. It might feel like too much on any given day to live a perfect life. After all, none of us are perfect (no, not even you!). But it does seem that we can do our best not to be abusive or arrogant or ungrateful or brutes or inhuman. So, dear ones, let's start there.

Peace,
Pastor Jenn

PS. I apologize with the unscheduled interruption of devotions earlier this week! There's nothing wrong with your email program...