What Are We Looking For?

 

  There was a big-time businessman who talked fast, thought fast, and made his choices fast. So, when it came time for him to hire an accountant, he didn’t want a long process. He had the top three candidates come to his office for a one-question interview. As each man came in, he simply asked them “What does two plus two equal?”. Well, the first man had previously worked for a science company so he was very exact in his answer “Two plus two equal 4.00000”. The second man whose earlier work was in banking answered, “Two plus two will double the sum to four “. Now the third fellow had worked for the government in the budget office, so when he was asked the same question, he turned his head looked to the left then to the right, and said” Well, how much do you want them to equal?

 Some people are willing to make their answers whatever the one asking the questions wants to hear.

 In 2^nd Timothy 4:3-4, we read, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths”.  This is the template for many in the religious world today. Instead of delivering the truth, they make their words fit with the desire of the listener and not God's will.

 Yet they only have a job, if that is what we accept! Demand truth. Even if it isn’t easy or palatable. Desire to know what is and not what we want it to be.  Accept not what “tickles our ears” but what “cut to our hearts”

 When we are asked what do we want, let the answer be the truth!