Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth —2 Timothy 2:15
If you cannot express yourself well on each of your beliefs, work and study until you can. If you don’t, other people may miss out on the blessings that come from knowing the truth. Strive to re-express a truth of God to yourself clearly and understandably, and God will use that same explanation when you share it with someone else. But you must be willing to go through God’s winepress where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle, experiment, and rehearse your words to express God’s truth clearly. Then the time will come when that very expression will become God’s wine of strength to someone else. But if you are not diligent and say, “I’m not going to study and struggle to express this truth in my own words; I’ll just borrow my words from someone else,” then the words will be of no value to you or to others. Try to state to yourself what you believe to be the absolute truth of God, and you will be allowing God the opportunity to pass it on through you to someone else.Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.
Journal Entry for Today-JDV
Lord, what do I do to make certain I am allowing this light you have given me to shine? What do I say and do to make certain You can flow from me at every opportunity?
And God says…”It is not up to you to shine, it is up to Jesus living inside of you. In fact as you go about living your life, your light will shine brightest when you are not
even aware that someone is using your light as a lamp for their feet. Simply stay connected on (and in) a daily, hourly, minute by minute relationship with Jesus, and allow Him to shine. The value of your lamp and life has nothing at all to do with your awareness (or even your behavior), but everything to do with your connection and availability. In fact, you may cast the most light when you are not even aware.”
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