Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 Timothy 1-4.

There is a lot in today’s passage which I want to write about.  I am not sure I will be able to fit it all together.  Paul writes that God has given us a Spirit which does not make us timid.  Rather, it gives us power, love, and self-discipline.  Paul then says something which expands on that.  Because of the Spirit which God has given us we know the God whom we have believed and can be confident that He will guard that which we have entrusted to Him.  And because we know those things we should embrace the self-discipline to which His Spirit leads us.  The self-discipline, power, and love God’s Spirit gives us are intertwined. The love compels us to have self-discipline and the power both allows us to have that self-discipline and is only fully expressed when we exercise that self-discipline.  Paul goes on to write that love and self-discipline should keep us from godless chatter and stupid, foolish arguments.  So, while God’s Spirit does not make us timid, it also does not make us quarrelsome.  Let us be kind to everyone and neither resentful of others, nor stirring up resentment within them.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.