2 Thessalonians 2:2 “that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.”

NOT MY FRIEND

If you are on any Social Media site long enough, you will get a friend request from someone you know that is not really from them. Without their knowledge, their site has been hacked by someone and now these culprits are trying to gain access to all their friends in order to get personal information or just reek havoc. That happened to me last week. I got a friend request from someone I knew was already my friend. So, what did I do? I deleted the friend request. I knew it was not my friend.

Paul was dealing with people who were trying to fool the Thessalonians by saying they were bringing a message from Paul himself. They were trying to confuse these young believers and get them to believe things which Paul would never say or teach.

Who are you listening to? Are you checking out the source of your information? Are you just believing everything you hear from your Pastor or church leaders? Don’t hear me wrong. We must respect those in authority. But we must be diligent to check anything by God’s Word. Don’t fall for that “false friend request.” Don’t just believe something because someone said it. We are all fallible. No one is perfect. Only Christ was able to live a perfect human life.

TEACHING MOMENT

Our children need to know how to discern falsehoods. They are going to be bombarded with false messages from the world. The devil will use friends, teachers and others to confuse your child and direct their attention away from the truth. The only way we can protect them from these falsehoods is to ground them in the truth – God’s Word. They must know it so they can recognize what is not of it.

How are you doing with this? Are you spending time with your kids in the Word? Are you memorizing scripture with them? Are you speaking truth into them every day. Be mindful of the false messages they are hearing and quickly correct them. We can’t waste one day to teach them the truth. Be watchful. Be diligent. And trust the Lord to guide.