Reading for Today - II Timothy 4:1-5 - preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching

2 Timothy 4:1-5 (ESV)

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

We should teach the word of God whether it is in season or not. The word of God does not change. All men need to hear and know the word. We need to study the word of God so that we are ready to reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching. Many don't want to hear the word of God, they would rather hear something that suits what they want to believe. Paul warned Timothy of this when he said that the time would come when people would not endure sound teaching. We need to make sure that we are not seeking to only hear what we want to hear. We need to make sure we are going to the word of God with an open heart, seeking to learn and understand from the word.