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Doing Our Best
We often feel our best isn’t enough, but in God’s eyes, it is. Reflecting on 2 Timothy 2:15, learn how d… (visit YouTube for more)
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Many of us feel like sometimes our best is not good enough, and in the sense that we can’t make ourselves righteous that’s true. But in other ways, our best is more than enough, as Paul says in two Timothy chapter two, verse 15: Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
I like the fact that this verse starts with “do your best”. In other words, if there’s some impossible standard that you can’t measure up to, don’t worry about that. God’s got it.
But that doesn’t mean that we should be complacent. Timothy here is being told by Paul that he’s got to do his best. He needs to work at this, right? He needs to be a worker who is rightly handling the word of truth.
Is that something that we can do? Well, we can only stand any chance at all of handling God’s word correctly if we spend time with it, if we learn more about it, if we study it. This is something for everyone, not only for those of us who may be inclined to read books.
No the word of God is available to everybody who can listen to it from the youngest to the oldest, from the most able to the least able. We can all respond in different ways to God’s word.
We’re one of his workers and we have no need to be ashamed. Jesus Christ takes away our shame. That shame you may feel my friend, ask God to free you of it. Because his word says we can be those who have no need to be ashamed.
There’s a tension here, isn’t there, between what God has done and what he asks us to do. The Christian life isn’t a passive life. There is plenty for us to be doing for God. What we have to do will be different for every single person. He’s made us all different, given us different gifts.
My son Morgan, who we lost last year, the most that he could do was smile, and that was all that God asked of him. And he had no need to be ashamed.
We before God are those who are approved. He loves us and he accepts us. So let therefore rightly handle his word.
