House Rules (Daily Devotional)

Hello, we're so glad that you could be here for Living Supernaturally, our daily devotion, where we look at God's word so that we can learn and apply God's word. This week, we've been focusing on Paul's red letters to Timothy and we've been looking at some of these verses here. It is so rich with the content, it is so rich with instruction and command and revelation. So, today let's look at 1 Timothy chapter 3 verses 14 and 15. 1 Timothy chapter 3, verse 14, Paul writes and he says, ‘these things I write to you, Timothy though I hope to come to you shortly; but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.’ So, Paul is writing to Timothy and he's saying, I hope to come to you quickly but if I am delayed I'm writing with this intention that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself, how you ought to behave in the house of God. He uses a Greek word there meaning household or family of God. So, he's talking about this gathering which is the house of God and he's saying this is the family or the household of God, which means that you ought to know how to conduct yourself, how to behave in the family or the household of God. Now we know that in a family, there are people of various age groups, there are people of various levels of maturity and there are people in various seasons of life. So, it's a mix of all this, different stages of growth and maturity, different seasons of life and so on. So, there could be elders, there could be young adults, there could be teens, there could be youth and there could be children. So, Paul is saying telling Timothy, you ought to know how to conduct yourself which means that for all these age groups, we need to know how to conduct ourselves and the parallel there, an example there is that it's a family, it's a household of God. So, we know for sure that in a family, in a household there are several dynamics, there are several things that are in place, there are house rules, there are certain rules that are there that are peculiar to households and they're peculiar to families but these need to be carried out or obeyed for harmony and for everything to go well. So, house rules, there are responsibilities, not just rules but responsibilities where everyone serves in different capacities. Well, some responsibilities could be big for the leaders of the family, for the elders in the family, the responsibilities could be maybe something to do with finances, something to do with some major, big decisions but there could be other responsibilities where others serve in different ways. Also, there is mutual respect and honor for each other and everyone is working towards one thing, so, this is the family. Paul is saying you know you need to know how to conduct yourself in such a household, in such a family. So, this is the understanding that we have about the household, about the family of God. Shall we pray, Father, we thank you that church is not just a gathering or not just a ritual on every Sunday that we do but it is a household, it is a family. We thank you that in a family, all these different dynamics are in place and Lord, we thank you that your word gives us the wisdom and the know how to conduct ourselves in the church, in the household of faith, we thank you, we give you all the praise and glory, in Jesus’s matchless name we pray, Amen.

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