Be Strong in the Grace
2 Timothy 2:1-2, “Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.”
As God allows and directs, my heart is to commit to the faithful what God has taught me. If we will reach the next generation and those to follow with the grace of Christ Jesus, we first must be strong in that grace and commit what we know to the faithful who will teach others also. We can no longer afford generational gaps of teaching Biblical truth! We need to increase in our learning from God’s Word and be faithful to teach others also.
With this blog, I hope to encourage who I can to be strong enough to walk the path of Christ while teaching and strengthening others along the way. As a teacher within a church environment for almost two decades, I have had opportunity to see God work in the lives of those that He has so graciously allowed me to influence. I am humbled now to serve as a pastor and to see God use the preaching of His Word to affect hearts for Him. I pray this to be an avenue that God will use to stir the hearts of His people to follow and be encouraged in Him, and then that God’s people will transmit this knowledge to someone else.
Of course, much of the teaching will not mean a lot to a person who has not accepted Jesus Christ as Savior. You cannot be encouraged in God’s Word if you have not placed your faith in Jesus as the only way of salvation. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” There is no salvation in any other. It is only by the salvation that God freely offers by grace through faith that the wages of sin, which is death, can be satisfied. You will only find peace and purpose in Jesus Christ, who by His death and resurrection offers eternal life to “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord.” The way of salvation is simple: you must realize you are a sinner (“all have sinned and come short of the glory of God”), repent of your sin (turn from the way of your sin to Christ), receive Jesus as your Savior (‘as many as received him, to them gave he power to be the sons of God), and you can rejoice in your new life!
