Cuppa Vague Spirituali-TEA

For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. 

(2 Timothy 4:3, NLT)

These days many people sip from a cuppa vague spirituali-TEA. A "spirituality" that never says NO to their own whims or behavior. There is no big fat no-o-o for any spirituality, which actually condones their chosen lifestyle. 
A spirituality often more interested in the environment than in God, who created it. Loving creation more than the creator.
Saving an obscure species or protecting the oceans can become their religion, because it's what they love. 
Vague spirituality is self-love---NOT love of the Lord.

To put it in "southern speak," folks seek a spirituality which allows them to harken after their own hankerings. 

Choose NOT to let the world serve you a cuppa vague spirituali-TEA. Rather drink deeply form the well of "living water." (John 4:10)

"Selectivi-TEA"

For the time will come when people 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. (2 Timothy 4:3, NIV)

Many a couple struggles with selective hearing "chosen" by their spouse, though most often men get the blame. Mention the opera or a conversation with a friend and he is tuned out but mention football stats or golf scores and "he" is all ears! It goes both ways---but for either, it's an action when one chooses to focus his/her attention on a specific source of a sound (think...spouse vs TV) or the spoken words themselves.
Selective hearing is a euphemism for listening to only what one wants to hear.

Some of us sip from this cuppa of selectivi-TEA when we read our Bibles. Even being aware that ALL scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable.....(2 Timothy, 3:16, emphasis mine), one can still pick and choose the truths he/she wants to heed. Some even hop from church to church or tele-evangelist to tele-evangelist til they find the prosperi-TEA gospel they want to hear. In our culture, there's always a "teacher/preacher" ready to tickle your ears so that you "feel good"----because they say what you want to hear.

The selective hearer only ever hears within their own frame of reference.

Ask yourself, "Am I hearing what God is saying and wants me to hear....or is self my frame of reference?"

Selectivi-TEA of truth is a choice each must make on his own.