We closed yesterday’s blog on Scary Times with the question: what shall we do? Actually, Paul tells Timothy exactly what to do. Maybe we should listen in:

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…
• always be sober-minded,
• endure suffering,
• do the work of an evangelist,
• fulfill your ministry. (2 Timothy 4.1, 2, 5, ESV, bulleted for clarity)

I strongly believe that the last command applies to us all, even if some of the earlier commands more directly apply to Timothy as a pastor. Please click the link. All we can do, even when the culture appears to be going to hell in a handbasket, is the work God has given us to do right where we are.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2.10, ESV)