Episode 28: 2nd Timothy 3

Today's Meditation is based on 2 Timothy 3, from the Passion Translation

In these final days the culture of society will become extremely fierce. People will be self-centered lovers of themselves and obsessed with money. They will boast of great things as they strut around in their arrogant pride and mock all that is right. They will ignore their own families. They will be ungrateful and ungodly.

They will become addicted to hateful and malicious slander. Slaves to their desires, they will be ferocious, belligerent haters of what is good and right. With brutal treachery, they will act without restraint, bigoted and wrapped in clouds of their conceit. They will find their delight in the pleasures of this world more than the pleasures of loving God.

They may pretend to have a respect for God, but in reality they want nothing to do with God’s power. I stay away from people like these! They are the ones who worm their way into the hearts of the vulnerable. They are always learning but never discover the revelation-knowledge of truth.

Instead, I love others and know that through Christ Jesus, I have more than enough. I do not boast in myself, but only in him who makes all things possible. I cherish and value my family, and take care of them. I am truly grateful for all of my blessings. I love what is good and right. I act with restraint and humility. I find delight in the pleasures of loving God. 

I closely follow the example and the truth of the godly men and women who have gone before me. I model my life after the love and endurance they demonstrated by not giving up. The faith they had, I now have. What they hungered for in life has now become my longing as well. The patience they had with others, I now demonstrate. And I know that any hardships I have endured, they also endured the same difficulties. Yet the Lord has delivered me from every single one of them. I choose to live a godly life worshiping Jesus. 

I continue to advance in strength with the truth wrapped around my heart, being assured by God that he’s the One who has truly taught me all these things.

I remember what I have been taught from my childhood from the Holy Scriptures which impart to me the wisdom to experience everlasting life through the faith of Jesus, the Anointed One. God has transmitted his very substance into every Scripture, for it is God-breathed. It will empower me by its instruction and correction, giving me the strength to take the right direction and lead me deeper into the path of godliness. Then I will be God’s servant, fully mature and perfectly prepared to fulfill any assignment God gives me.

Until next time, be blessed and be a blessing.

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