I used to read this next verse with a kind of "tisk, tisk" attitude. If you are not familiar with that phrasing, it refers to a kind of clicking of the tongue, that expresses a righteous indignation that such a thing exists. It is an expression of pride that I, or mine are not that way.
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:3-4)."
But when "those people" are your children or members of your family, the words pierce your heart with grief. What is more, when you experience their kindness and love, when you enjoy being with them, when you grapple with things in the Bible that are difficult to understand, all pride flees your heart and you find yourself begging God to keep you from falling away from your faith in him (Exodus 34:12; Deuteronomy 4:9, 11:16; Romans 14:4; Ephesians 1:4-5; Philippians 1:6; 1 Corinthians 10:12; Hebrew 12:1-3; Jude 1:24)
Thank God our faith is his gift to us (Ephesians 2:8) and we can place our family into his care (2 Timothy 1:12). Thank God that he is able to save those we pray for (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
