Titus 2:2

Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

Thoughts on This Verse…

Worthy of respect! What a goal for our lives whether we are men or women! Don't you want your life to reflect the character of God because our faith expresses itself in a life of self-control and godliness? This work of the Spirit in our lives happens only as we dedicate ourselves to being what he is at work trying to accomplish in us.

Thoughts

. We have given too much attention to methods and to machinery and to resources, and too little to the Source of Power, the filling with the Holy Ghost.

. Sin is largely a matter of mistaken priorities.  Any sin in us that is cherished, hidden, and not confessed will cut the nerve center of our faith.

. Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.

.We’re prone to want God to change our circumstances, but He wants to change our character.  We think that peace comes from the outside in, but it comes from the inside out.

.God uses our most stumbling, faltering faith-steps as the one door to His doing for us “more than we ask or think.”

.Is your child learning of the love of God through your love, tenderness, and mercy?

. By fasting, the body learns to obey the soul; by praying, the soul learns to command the body.

.Sorrow is a wound.  It cuts deeply, but sorrow is a clean wound, and will heal unless something gets into the wound, such as bitterness, self-pity, or resentment.

. Not now, but in the coming years

It may be in the better land

We’ll read the meaning of our tears,

And there, sometime, we’ll understand.

.. God knows the way, He holds the key,

He guides us with unerring hand;

Some time with tearless eyes we’ll see;

Yes, there, up there, we’ll understand.