1 Timothy
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1 Timothy 5.9–10 Criterion
Today’s short passage is about who should be on the list of poor relief recipients. Reading these words, watch how your mind travels out searching, but make sure it comes back to the first and foremost point. 9 No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful Continue reading
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1 Timothy 5.5–8 The Widow and the Fatherless
Today’s devotion is rather personal, but I hope it brings to life a little the ideas surrounding the term ‘widow’ in the Bible. 5 The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. As discussed in Continue reading
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1 Timothy 5.1–4 God’s Way
Now that Timothy is all filled up with the things he should do to revolutionise the Ephesian congregation, uprooting any trace of falsehood, how is he to truly go about this? 1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, The good-fight strategy number three Continue reading
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1 Timothy 4.15–16 Immersion
Today, the world is suffering from war, famine, extreme weather, poverty, and discrimination. The world’s way of prosperity has such a different face on the other side. What is the believers’ hope in these times? 15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. The two Continue reading
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1 Timothy 4.11–14 The Calling
Do you sometimes feel inadequate for the things you are supposed to do? The key to turning the inadequacy into adequacy may lie in understanding who it is that commissioned you to it. 11-12 Command and teach these things. Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers Continue reading
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1 Timothy 4.6–10 Training to be Godly
Do you have a training schedule? How do you keep your body fit? Today’s passage is about keeping your mind fit, which Paul claims is more beneficial than bodily training. 6 If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the truths of the Continue reading
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1 Timothy 4.1–5 Causing (not) to Stumble
If there was a way for you to be more godly and holy, would you be interested? As disappointing as it may be, there is no such a way, in short, because godliness comes from God alone, and his granting it to you is more than sufficient. False teachers put cunning bait in front of Continue reading
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1 Timothy 3.14–16 The Mystery of Godliness
Godliness does not come from extravagant outward performance but from being acted upon by God. In the case of Moses, for exmaple, it is not the shining rays that radiate from his face, which happened to wither off later on, but God’s word being given to him. As Paul rounds off the household conduct for Continue reading
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1 Timothy 3.11–13 The Perfect Housekeeping
The standard seems high. But not because of the persons’ profiles but because of Jesus’ profile, who is the proficient manager of the house. He makes sure God’s purpose advances despite the outward appearances of the house, whether messy or tidy. The perfect housekeeping advances the work of God, no matter how adverse or favourable Continue reading
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1 Timothy 3.8–10 The Mystery of Faith
The ‘qualification’ for overseers is followed by that for deacons. What is the mystery of faith they are to hold onto? How blameless should they be? Is it far from how Abraham was promised by God that he would be made blameless? Compare the following with your own standard for those who ‘deserve’ to be Continue reading
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