Itching Ears

"You have advisors by the ton--your astrologers and stargazers, who try to tell you what the future holds...But...theirs is no fire to sit beside to make you warm!" (Isaiah 47:13,14 TLB).

We all want to know what's going to happen in our lives. Astrology feeds on our insatiable inquisitiveness, and the daily papers oblige. Even television accommodates; we see advertising for psychics. "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. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths" (2 Timothy 4:3,4). We have gathered around us "teachers" and