2 Timothy 4:1-5
1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the Word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
taken from Our Journey devotional:
"In a rut? Get on your knees and plead, Take hold of me, Lord. Grip my heart with these truths you’ve entrusted to me and give me an opportunity to bring them to someone else."
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Mother Teresa's Poem:
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
...Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
...Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
...Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
...Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
...Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
...Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
...Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
...Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
"We can do no great things -only small things with great love."
--Mother Teresa
posted by ~*~VaNeSsA~*~ -- 3:04 a.m.
1 Comments:
good passage...reflective of our conversation last night. i need to think on what "reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching" means and looks like...
later
JT
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