The Teaching

Watch your self and the teaching. 1 Tim 4:16a INT

Have you ever people watched? It is an intriguing pastime. People are curious creatures.

There are 8 billion people on the planet, mostly all busy about some task or fifty. Much is productive. Much is not. Much is constructive. Much is destructive. No two opinions align.

It does not require much reflection along these lines to realize that all the variety, all the hustle and bustle simply continues. Those who seek after our Creator, however, are instructed to live with purpose, not to be wandering stars but to allow the Most High to align our very selves, our lives, our activities and involvements, our purpose with His. Our purpose is His purpose. Rather, His purpose is our only true purpose. What a blessing it is to learn from Him, to discover and begin to recognize and understand The Truth, The Teaching, The Doctrine and to allow God to begin reshaping and reforming, refashioning and realigning our very self with The Teaching of God.

We are not even to approve of anything less. And by God’s grace, He helps us to live and share The Teaching in such a way that demonstrates His power yet does not destroy the precious lives of those around us. God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Romans 1
²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Let us humbly accept The Teaching of this WORD of life planted in us, and it will show like good fruit on a tree.

Our Heavenly Father, Your Name is Holy
May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done here on earth as it is in heaven
Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin agains us
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
For Yours is the Kingdom, and the power and the glory forever
Amen.