daily devotionals for july 18th today's scripture reading will be second timothy 2
verses 14 through 16. remind them of these things charging them before the lord not to strive about
words to no prophet to the ruin of the hearers be diligent to present yourselves approved to god
a worker who does not need to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth
but shun profane and idol babblings for they will increase to more ungodliness
well that is so important that we understand that a lot of this you know it's like james talks
about bridling the tongue and the thing is he's saying don't strive about the words to no prophet
we should be talking to others no matter who it is in what area of life that we
uh you know if if you're at the doctor's office the grocery store if you're in church
if you're on the street you know whatever it is that you're doing the conversation should always
be inspired by the holy spirit in you by the word of god that lives in you okay and therefore
you're not striving remember scripture says that holy spirit will give us the words that we need
when we need it it isn't that we have to know everything holy spirit will give us what we need
present yourself approved to god we don't need to be ashamed of the gospel rightly dividing the word
of truth you know if you're always speaking the truth okay not exaggerating but speaking the word
of truth then you you're not going to get misled and you're once you tell a lie you
have to tell another and another another to cover it but if you always tell the truth
you're always going to tell the same story over and over again because it is quote the truth
okay rightly dividing the word of truth but shun and profane idol babblings you know what i think
that's talking about um a lot of gossip you know if we can get into it's easy and i think probably
women do it more than men but you start talking and you call it nitpicking or cat talking you
know you just start picking picking apart other people and for what that's just idle babbling
somebody doesn't meet your expectations so we pick them apart so and so said this or did that
it didn't suit our fancy it didn't you know wasn't what we wanted well you know maybe we're not what
they want you think about that you know none of us are perfect jesus was the only perfect one we
should be trying to measure up to his standard not ours you know he died for us we were still sinners
we were still you know steeped in sin he didn't reject us he accepted us as we are
so uh you know i believe we need to be like the sons of issachar rightly uh
understanding the times and the seasons that we're in and be like the bereans who would uh
know the word and rightly divide the word we need to be paying attention to what is going on in the
world and line scripture up and be praying those scriptures into the events that are happening
around the world and not so much talking about you know i haven't this is probably not a nice word
but it's something that i've said for years is politicians we have good politicians and
we have some that are not so good i said a lot of times you can tell a politician usually a
true politician because they talk out of both sides of their mouth and don't say anything
it's because it's all a bunch of garbled stuff just to get someone's vote but we need to be
uh we're called to a higher standard we need to be paying attention to what
is going on and we need to be praying into it according to scripture okay all right
on my soapbox today all right till next time be blessed