There is a warning here for us.
We are living in an age where women can spend hours scrolling, listening, watching, speculating, gossiping, following personalities, chasing conspiracy theories, consuming controversy, and endlessly learning about everything—while becoming increasingly unfamiliar with the Word of God.
We can have access to more information than any generation before us and yet be increasingly starved of truth.
Paul warns Timothy:
“For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.”
— 2 Timothy 3:6–7
Notice that Paul doesn’t merely warn about false information.
He warns about captivation.
There are voices that want access to your attention.
There are voices that want access to your home.
There are voices that want access to your children.
There are voices that want access to your emotions.
And there are voices that will gladly keep you angry, afraid, suspicious, entertained, and distracted because a distracted Christian is easier to influence.
And Christian women, we need to be careful.
Not everything that calls itself “discernment” is discernment.
Not every secret explanation is truth.
Not every viral video deserves our attention.
Not every accusation deserves our agreement.
Not every Christian influencer deserves our trust.
Not every “dream,” “revelation,” or personal experience carries biblical authority.
And not every hour we spend consuming information is an hour well spent.
Jude gives us another sobering picture. He warns about people who reject authority, follow their own ungodly desires, boast about what they do not understand, and infiltrate the people of God. They are compared to hidden reefs—dangerous beneath the surface.
That is what makes this so serious.
Some dangers do not look dangerous at first.
They look like entertainment.
They look like “just keeping up.”
They look like being informed.
They look like exposing evil.
They look like having discernment.
They look like Christian content.
But if something continually produces fear, suspicion, outrage, gossip, arrogance, obsession, division, or contempt—and continually pulls you away from Scripture, prayer, your responsibilities, and loving Christ and His people—we should have enough discernment to step away.
Christian women, we need to be in the Word.
Not merely hearing what someone says the Bible says.
Not merely listening to sermons while scrolling through everything else.
Not merely collecting Bible studies.
We need to know the Word ourselves.
We need sound doctrine.
We need prayer.
We need self-control.
We need holy lives.
We need to learn how to recognize a counterfeit because we know what is true.
And husbands, fathers, pastors, and spiritual leaders—pay attention.
Pay attention to what is entering your home.
Pay attention to what voices are discipling your family.
Pay attention to what is filling the ears and hearts of those entrusted to your care.
This isn’t about controlling women.
It is about shepherding a household.
We should all be asking:
What is discipling me?
What am I consuming every day?
What occupies my thoughts?
What am I constantly talking about?
What am I teaching my children to care about?
Am I becoming more like Christ—or simply more informed about the things of this world?
Paul says that in the last days there will be people who are lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
And then he tells Timothy what to do.
Stay faithful.
Jude tells us:
“But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.”
— Jude 20–21
There is our answer.
Grow strong in sound doctrine.
Preserve in prayer.
Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Wait for the coming of Christ.
We do not need to know every conspiracy.
We do not need to follow every controversy.
We do not need to have an opinion about everything.
We need to know Christ.
We need to know His Word.
We need to guard our homes.
We need to guard our hearts.
We need to live holy lives.
And we need to remember that our King is coming.
So, sister—
Put the phone down. Open the Word. Pray. Test what you hear. Guard your heart. Love your family. Walk in holiness. And keep your eyes on Christ.
Because the goal isn’t to be the woman who knows everything happening in the world.
The goal is to be the woman who knows the One who made it.
“To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.”
— Jude 25
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