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Do Your Best: Rightly Handling the Word of Truth
This episode reflects on 2 Timothy 2:15, where Paul urges Timothy to “… (visit YouTube for more)
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Paul says in two Timothy chapter two, 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.
