Tickling Ears Syndrome… The Time Has Come!
2 Timothy 4:3-4 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.
Tickling Ears Syndrome… TES… Also known as “making it up as we go”. Also known as Happy Fools RULE!
We certainly don’t live in the age of Truth. We live in the age of Feelings. Everything is measured by HOW that makes ME feel. We are fast approaching the criminalization of upsetting someone. The punishment for such a grievous crime? You will be publicly shamed by the crowd of self appointed “ism” hunters (also known as Social Justice Warriors). You will be locked out of lives who do not want to be influenced (some you call friends/family). You will be locked up in the prison bad people (renamed Deplorable by those who know us so well) who make other people feel bad.
It is indeed a scary world! So scary, I find myself praying the one prayer that WILL change this world, “Bo Yeshua!”. And He says…
Revelation 22:12-13 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
How does that make you feel?
John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” John 6:66 As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.
Are you the kind of follower of Jesus who withdraw from His difficult statements? Are they so difficult for you that you no longer walk with Him?
Oh come on! We are ALL tempted! It’s the law of evil to draw us away from The One who defeated evil… Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8)… seeking someone (he especially likes lambs who seem to forget their Shepherd’s voice) to devour. But here’s the thing! We don’t have to be in NOR STAY IN the slaughter line!
“This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” The temptation is NOT what changes location, the change in location is completely your choice of WHOSE voice you will follow. If you feel that God has left you behind… it was YOU who walked away! God doesn’t leave nor forsake you!
I’m just saying… “BAAAA”…
John 10:24-30 The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
WHOSE voice will you stake your life on?
So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?” Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.” (John 6:67-69)
Do you KNOW the Holy One of God? When you are face to face with His difficult statements, do you come closer still?
John 5:39-40 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
If the voices in your head are clamoring for you to RUN AWAY, ask yourself where will you RUN TO. The voice of our enemy wants to kill, steal, and destroy you.
Your own voice wants immediate gratification.
There is ONLY ONE voice who desperately wants you to choose the WAY, the TRUTH, the LIFE.
Will you follow Him or go the way of TES? I’m sure having your ears tickled will make you giggle with delight as you accumulate for yourself teachers in accordance to your own desires, and turn away your ears from the truth and turn aside to myths.
But will TES provide ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’ (Jeremiah 29:11)
Will TES lead you into eternity?
John 6:35-40 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
Forget the ears… THIS tickles my spirit! If my voices aren’t sending me running to Him, I command them to, “SHUT THE HELL UP!”, as I shout the only prayer that gives me a future and a hope in this world…
Bo Yeshua! Come Lord, COME!
**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.