Clouds without Water

I grew up on a farm in West Tennessee. We mostly grew cotton. Oh, how hot it could get in the middle of the afternoon as we chopped that cotton. I remember those afternoon clouds that would begin to gather, and kid-like, I would watch them with the hope that they would come on over and give us some rain. If this happened, we would get to go to the house for the rest of the day. If you have experienced this, you know just how disappointing it was when those clouds passed over and did not have a drop of rain.

Peter used this very thing to describe false teachers. In 2 Peter 2:17, he wrote: “These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.” He further describes them as having “great swelling words of emptiness.” We have all heard them — a lot of noise, a lot of wind – but no substance. Political correctness, feelings, opinions, and denominational doctrines are “wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest.” As such, they will not get you to heaven.