REFRESH our Commitment to Continuance!

1 Timothy 4:9-14 NIV

This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance (and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe. Command and teach these things. Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you.

Believers in Christ are urged both, by ministers of the gospel and by the WORD of God, to continue serving Christ with the gift they have received.

It is no less important today than during the days when Paul strongly encouraged Timothy and many other faithful believers to continue devoting their lives to being examples of Christ, laboring with love for everone.

In this present day of religious and secular division, many believer's vision of their committment to work, and their pursuit of goals, there is a vacuum which exists in their spiritual pursuit concerning commitment to the task of living in their God ordained destiny.

Unless, like Timothy, a teacher or mentor much like Paul, continues to encourage and provide them with necessary guidance, some believers may become weak, discouraged and even lax in their labors.

Being REFRESHED in Christ by other believers is sometimes, the difference between nominal and EFFECTIVE.

Lord, YOU have placed within me

a burning desire for more of YOU!

Teach me those TRUTHS that are

mine, by Holy Spirit, I labor to learn!!

YOU have kept YOUR every PROMISE,

and FOR my destiny in YOU, I yearn!!!