“Could God Be Calling You to Make a Difference in Someone’s Life?” October 31
Who has God placed in your life right now?
Maybe it’s someone who is discouraged and losing hope.
Someone caught in a pattern of sin.
Someone who has been hurt and is becoming bitter.
Someone who is spiritually confused.
Or someone who seems completely blind to truths that once appeared obvious.
It can be hard to know what to do.
Should we say something?
Stay quiet?
Encourage?
Confront?
Share the gospel again?
Or simply pray and wait?
Second Timothy 4 gives us a surprisingly practical answer.
Paul told Timothy to “preach the word,” and then gave four ways God’s truth is to be brought into the lives of others:
convince, rebuke, exhort, and teach with patience.
Those words remind us that helping people doesn’t always look the same.
Sometimes love means explaining truth.
Sometimes it means correcting error.
Sometimes it means confronting sin.
And sometimes it means encouraging someone who is weary to keep going.
But there is another warning in this passage.
People can become so resistant to truth that they begin gathering teachers who will tell them exactly what they want to hear.
That helps explain how people can eventually call evil good and good evil.
And it raises an uncomfortable question:
Could that happen to us, too?
Today we’ll look at four ways we can make a difference in someone’s life, how spiritual delusion develops, and how to guard our own hearts from preferring what we want to hear over what God has actually said.
