“Teach
the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in
faith, in love and in endurance.”
Titus
2:2
As a child of God you are to walk in the will of God;
this means that you must adhere to His voice as well as His word… There are so
many people today who are perishing because they are told what they want to
hear instead of what they need to hear… Paul reminds Titus in this passage and
reminds us today in this devotional, that even though people may not accept it
at first or even may scorn you in the process, the word of God must come from
your mouth in purity and unedited… You are not on this earth to please man, you
are here to fulfill the will of God and hopefully lead others to Him in the
process… Make no mistake about; a lot of
people you encounter simply do not want to hear the truth… The word of God
was not written to be altered or manipulated; it was recorded from the very
will of God to provide direction, correction and hope for our eternal future…
We enter this world as sinners and can only be saved by grace when we are shown
the ugly reflection in the mirror that is us… In pains me today to see so many
churches being filled because the Pastor speaks words that people want to hear
verses what they actually need to hear… When
someone tells you what you want to hear, they are in essence delaying and even
creating a false hope in your destiny… As we studied yesterday about David
and his desire for God to teach him His will, we know how many mistakes that he
made… It was the prophet Nathan (used by God) who did not tell David what he
wanted to hear, but rather told him about his errors which led to his
repentance and increased his faith… In the 2nd book of Samuel we
find how Nathan went about confronting David and his fault against man as well
as his sin against God…
So the Lord sent Nathan to David. Nathan came to him and
said, “There were two men in a certain city. One was rich, and the other was
poor. The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cows,
but the poor man had only one little female lamb that he had
bought. He raised her, and she grew up in his home with his children. She would
eat his food and drink from his cup. She rested in his arms and was like a
daughter. “Now, a visitor came to the rich man. The rich man thought it
would be a pity to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for
the traveler. So he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared her for the traveler.”
David burned with anger against the man. “I solemnly swear, as the Lord lives,” he said to Nathan, “the man who did this certainly deserves
to die! And he must pay back four times the price of the lamb because he did
this and had no pity.” “You are the man!” Nathan
told David.
The message today is simple, stand upon the word of God because the word of God stands alone…
There is nothing that needs to be add to it, nothing that needs to be taken
from it, don’t allow society or your community to keep you from abiding in the
will of God and therefore walking in your calling… Now is a critically time in
our nation where the word needs to be preached more and itching ears need to be
pleased less… The children of today don’t
know what respect is, there a knowledge transfer gap that has been created which
has the child of today believing that they have more rights than their parents…
This day and time says that you can have what you what when you want it and
with vices such as internet, social media and other advances of technology the meaning
of hard work has been lost or even simply forgotten… All the things that are
not right at our fingertips have created a comfortable atmosphere so that we
are blind to the very things which are allowing our demise… In this passage, I
am reminded of the times of yesterday and understand the importance of
capturing and using the tools of the bible which have been used for thousands
of years… We have to get back to the basics, this is why Paul tells Titus to, teach the older men to be temperate, worthy
of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. Tell
the truth and shame the devil…
BE BLESSED!!!
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