Good morning. In case you did not know it – in the last days difficult times will come. All we have to do is look around. His idea of difficult times though may not be the same as ours. We may think of it as being difficult to make ends meet. He's talking about it being difficult to live the Christian life. For men will be lovers of self (they only think of others as a means of fulfilling their own desires), lovers of money (just like in first Timothy), boastful (they like to boast about the things that they have done; some of them about what they've done to Christians), arrogant (they think they are better than anyone – and dare you to oppose them), revilers (especially of Christians and their beliefs), disobedient to parents (and we thought our children were bad at times – but the children of today are much much worse), ungrateful (they don't even know how to say thank you – they don't think they need to; everything is owed to them), unholy (nothing is off-limits to them), unloving (they love themselves too much – there is no room for loving others; besides others may keep them from getting what they want), irreconcilable (they don't want to be reconciled – that would make them look weak), malicious gossips (they are not just spreading some juicy tidbit of information – they are trying to destroy that person), without self-control (you have to want to have self-control, and they don't), brutal (the more hurt, the better), haters of good (it's not just that they don't want to do good – the good reveals the bad that is in them). It has more, but we will finish that tomorrow. Father thank You that the reader truly follows You and desires to only do good. He/she is a good example to others.

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