June 18, 2024 A WORTHY GOAL
1 Timothy 1:5 “But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”
I love and I appreciate how simple, how easily understood, how liberating, and yet how powerful the scriptures are. If the word of God seems complicated, it is only in our minds that it seems that way. Paul wrote a lot of the New Testament and taught extensively; he was a brilliant, and well educated man; yet those credentials is not what made the difference; Paul had the impact he did only because God chose to give him much revelation in the things of God. It may come across as overly simplistic, but I think the above verse is an excellent summary of all that Paul wrote under the leading of the Holy Spirit. Paul had a goal in writing his epistles. He begins by saying that the goal is for believers to have love from a pure heart. That says a lot! It’s not about human love, but about the love of God flowing out of us. God’s love is totally unselfish; He delights in blessing. And, it is love from a pure heart. In fact, you can’t have one without the other; love and a pure heart go together. God has given us a new heart, and this new heart is a heart of love. We do not have to try in our own strength to love or to have a pure heart; love and being pure comes from the new creation we are in Christ-it is automatic. (We can revert to living out of our old nature.) Remember; we have an old self that resist the Spirit in us, but we have a new self that is in the image of God-wow! So, Paul is talking about the new person we are. We have all at some time had a bad conscience-and how miserable that feeling is. But by living out of who we are and by hearing and acting on the instructions of the word of God, we live with a good conscience-PTL. What a blessing to be at peace with all men, to have differences settled as much as we can on our part, and to be able to sleep at night. A sincere faith is all about receiving the word of God without dispute and believing in our hearts that the scriptures are the words of God. A sincere faith embraces the word of God and desires to be led by the word of God. So, the same goal that Paul had for the believers of his day are still very relevant for us today. Let us not coast, but be about having the goal fulfilled in our lives; let love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith be what defines us.
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Blessings, Buddy
1 Timothy 1:5 “But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”
I love and I appreciate how simple, how easily understood, how liberating, and yet how powerful the scriptures are. If the word of God seems complicated, it is only in our minds that it seems that way. Paul wrote a lot of the New Testament and taught extensively; he was a brilliant, and well educated man; yet those credentials is not what made the difference; Paul had the impact he did only because God chose to give him much revelation in the things of God. It may come across as overly simplistic, but I think the above verse is an excellent summary of all that Paul wrote under the leading of the Holy Spirit. Paul had a goal in writing his epistles. He begins by saying that the goal is for believers to have love from a pure heart. That says a lot! It’s not about human love, but about the love of God flowing out of us. God’s love is totally unselfish; He delights in blessing. And, it is love from a pure heart. In fact, you can’t have one without the other; love and a pure heart go together. God has given us a new heart, and this new heart is a heart of love. We do not have to try in our own strength to love or to have a pure heart; love and being pure comes from the new creation we are in Christ-it is automatic. (We can revert to living out of our old nature.) Remember; we have an old self that resist the Spirit in us, but we have a new self that is in the image of God-wow! So, Paul is talking about the new person we are. We have all at some time had a bad conscience-and how miserable that feeling is. But by living out of who we are and by hearing and acting on the instructions of the word of God, we live with a good conscience-PTL. What a blessing to be at peace with all men, to have differences settled as much as we can on our part, and to be able to sleep at night. A sincere faith is all about receiving the word of God without dispute and believing in our hearts that the scriptures are the words of God. A sincere faith embraces the word of God and desires to be led by the word of God. So, the same goal that Paul had for the believers of his day are still very relevant for us today. Let us not coast, but be about having the goal fulfilled in our lives; let love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith be what defines us.
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Blessings, Buddy
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