Listening to what we do not want to hear.
Listening to What We Do not Want to Hear Jeremiah 36-40. “Yet the King and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.” (36:24) When writing to Timothy, Paul warns, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths” (2 Timothy 4:3-4). The hardest thing to do is to listen to a warning that challenges us to change. We want affirmation so that we do not need to change. We want to be told that God loves us and that we are exempt from judgment. But the one thing we do not want is to be told is that we must change or face the consequences of our sin. We want heaven, but reject hell, even...