"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."

2 Timothy 4:3

Is this not so true of our society today?  If we are offended by something that a teacher says, we block them out right away.  We do not want to listen to someone challenging our opinions! We have become so selfish and prideful! We think that we are always right, and when someone tells us we are wrong, we are offended, and, instead of seeking the truth and determining if what the words of the person challenging us have merit, we run to another teacher who will tell us exactly what we want to hear.  In this sense we have become unteachable! We need to be running towards truth, not away from it!  In the book Taste and See by John Piper there is a chapter where he addresses 10 reasons to love the truth, and one of the things he mentions is that Biblical truth will be rejected by some.  We need to make sure that we are firmly grounded in the truth and that we are not rejecting sound teaching but clinging to it.

Unmovable!

Unmovable. Unshakeable. 

Let my roots grow down deep. 

Unmovable. Unshakeable in You.

And I wanna be like a tree

Planted by the streams 

Of living waters.

I know. I know. enough with the rooted theme right? But I couldn't help but post the words of this song.  These words were stuck in my head as soon as I heard them! I mean, this is my greatest desire and a constant prayer of my heart.  When I heard this song the first picture that came to my mind was a strong, plush tree growing by a beautiful rushing stream with clear, fresh water.  I want to be that tree!  As a student at a public university, lies are constantly being thrown at me, and in order to reveal theses as lies I have to be founded in Jesus Christ!  For me, this means staying in God's word, praying continually (1 Thessalonians 5:17), and having faith in my God!  A tree that is planted far from a water source is not as strong.  So we must make sure that we are surrounded by the living water (aka Jesus!) that will help us dig deep roots.  In my own life, I have consistently seen that when I neglect getting into God's Word and spending time in conversation with my Heavenly Father, I get discouraged and find it easier to be swayed by some of the world's lies.