October 11, 2010
Titus 2
Lynell McCrary
What stands out to you as you read Titus 2:11-12?
I encourage you to read it again.
Personally, I hear His whisper that I should be self-controlled but not selfish. The ability to control fleshly desires comes from making choices that conform to His Word, not the world.
I find that some things in my life are very easy to surrender, while some other things I tend to deem as “earned.” For example, it is hard for me to surrender to the concept that the house in which I have been investing monthly payments is worth less now than it was a couple of years ago. Something fleshly rises up in me, almost out of an injustice, to say “No, this can’t be true!”
Yet no matter what the economy does, it was and always will be God’s house. If He chooses for its value to shift, that’s up to Him. The responsibility of being self-controlled is not to be in control of everything that “self” has “earned,” but to control my thoughts and what I allow my mind to entertain. I must realize that it is all God’s anyway.
If we live with this mentality, would our response to Him look different if… our car was declared a total loss in an accident, our house was burned by fire, or anything else was “taken away” that we thought we had a right to?
Lynell’s predominant“D/I” personality blend serves her well in the role of Grace Covenant’s Connections Director. She loves to organize things and move forward.
