2 Timothy 4:3 (New International Version) For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. Youch ... pretty harsh verse, isn't it? I've always viewed this verse as if it was for other people. You know, the non-believers ? But lately I can see it apply to believers, like myself. We so often read between the lines of the Bible to see what we want to see, not what God wants us to see. I think this verse becomes true when we stop looking at the Bible like every word can be applied to our life, and it become more of a history book then the Word of God. God wrote each verse for us, and it might even have different meanings at different times in a person life. In Hebrews 4:12 (New International Version) it says - " For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any do...
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:17-19