{"id":874,"date":"2009-11-23T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=874"},"modified":"2009-11-23T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:57:31","slug":"true-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/true-love\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUE LOVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

2\u00a0Timothy 3:2-5<\/strong><\/p>\n

“People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God\u2014having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I am so\u00a0grieved that we have so many\u00a0professed believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who\u00a0tell<\/span><\/strong> more than show<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>the way we are to live out our Christian faith.\u00a0 SORRY!\u00a0 I hate to upset the apple cart of these people, but we are first of all to Show<\/span><\/strong> then Tell<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 We hear all too much and see so very little.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2014dear friend is not being godly, it is more accurate to describe it as just being nasty.\u00a0 Listen!\u00a0 If someone talks about being godly, yet violates the pattern of godliness in Scripture, do not consider them a role model.\u00a0 In fact they are negative role models and should be avoided.<\/p>\n

This pattern applies to all believers, so don’t think it is just for those of us who are called into an active paid\u00a0ministry.\u00a0 Someone has said that preachers get paid for being good and the others are good for nothing! Yikes! That old joke is even below my standards of humor, but,\u00a0I am known for saying things like that.<\/p>\n

In exploring the meaning of godliness, it is possible to know about God, and even have a knowledge of God\u2019s Word, yet fail to put it into practice.\u00a0 In today’s Scripture, Paul is describing for Timothy that it is necessary to look beyond what these so called \u201cgodly\u201d men say, and observe how they behave.<\/p>\n

There is an old book written by Charles Sheldon. It is called “In His Steps.”\u00a0 The theme of the book is to live one\u2019s life in such a way that the question would always be in front of those who wanted to be like Christ, “W<\/strong>hat W<\/strong>ould J<\/strong>esus D<\/strong>o”?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In recent years it has become a Christian fashion statement, especially for young people, to wear jewelry with the initials WWJD<\/strong>, which stood for this statement.\u00a0 How sad that many wear it but do not live it.\u00a0 Is it any more tragic that we who go to church and read the Bible and bow in prayer, so often fail to live our life as Jesus would desire?\u00a0 Please renew your commitment right now that with God’s help, you will live out WWJD.<\/p>\n

Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n

\u00a0– – – Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2\u00a0Timothy 3:2-5 “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God\u2014having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-timothy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}