Keep Your Head

What often happens in sudden situations is that we lose our heads. Not literally, of course, but we don't make good decisions when we are surprised by sudden changes. If we are not careful, we can mistake those quick events and make rash moves that cost us our future. 

You might have thought that Paul had done that if you were sitting beside him as he wrote his last letter to Timothy. After all, it was he that was in prison. Why would someone end up in jail if he didn't deserve it? Well, that is another story. 

In his second letter to Timothy, Paul is warning his son in the faith of things coming his way. Timothy would need to be aware of the following. 

"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). 

So that you know, I think that Paul's warning was for us too. People these days are ready to follow the strangest things. Who would have ever thought that we'd be disputing gender and communism in the United States? In religion, it is whether the Bible is the word of God, among other things. 

So, my friend, keep your head about you! Know the doctrine.