“…while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.” – 2 Timothy 3:13 ESV
Take note! It doesn’t get better. It does not get better unless we change. Have you ever had to be somewhere at a specific time and realized that you were driving in the wrong direction? If you keep driving in the wrong direction and don’t turn around you will drive further and further away from your intended destination and you chance of being on time for your appointment will get worse and worse. Have you ever had trouble with your health, i.e. diabetes, or high blood pressure? You and I both know that if you don’t stop eating foods with lots of sugar and salt your health will do nothing but get worse and worse.
What about attitude? Have you ever been in a bad mood, or had a day when you knew that your attitude was not good because of a particular circumstance or people that you don’t like? If we don’t change our attitudes about our circumstances or people we don’t like, then our attitudes just seem to get worse. Maybe this is why the Lord said, “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.” (Luke 6:27)
Maybe we are to love our enemies not only for their sake, but our own. If we don’t love our enemies, our attitudes toward those that we don’t like may get worse and worse.
We have to be careful about how we respond to people we don’t like, or those who may not like us, because if we don’t respond correctly, the according to Proverbs 14:3, the situation can get worse and worse. “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fail.” The Lord told people in John 5:14 that if they didn’t change their ways their situations would only get worse [“Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”]
I don’t think that the Lord is just talking about the things we do, but also our thoughts and our deeds. Satan uses subtlety all the time to deceive us, and our bad attitudes just seem to get worse and worse. Psalms 38:5 says, “My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.” It’s possible that the Psalmist is not necessarily talking about physical wounds but using an analogy to describe wicked behavior, disobedience or bad attitudes. Sometime people can smell us long before they see us. If we are too proud to clean up our bad attitudes, the Lord has a way that makes our worse and worse, better and better. He washes us with us Word, and cleanses us with His Blood.
Submitted By Deaconess Irene Gardon