Love And Endurance (Daily Devotional)

Greetings! and thank you for the privilege of coming your way, spending time with you, this week we've been talking about the nine marks of a minister of God, and we've been basing it on second Timothy chapter three verses 10 and 11 and I hope you've been tracking with us day after day and looking at each of these marks and our desire is that God will develop these in our lives. We have to grow in these, we don't come prepackaged with all of these nine marks, no, we grow in them and ask God to develop them in our lives and we're observing them from the life of the apostle Paul. Today we look at two more, Paul mentions love and perseverance, perseverance meaning endurance. So, two things we're going to look at. He says Timothy, you've seen my love, love for God and love for people and perseverance- the ability to endure, to press through hardships, difficult times. Love must be another mark in our lives, how we love God and how we love people. Love must be expressed through our devotion to God and through our dedicated serving of people, love must be seen through what we do, through how we speak and the actions we take, people need to see, love must be demonstrated. And in addition to love, he says perseverance, my ability to persevere or press through difficulties, situations that could push you back, you press through, you endure, and you keep going. Paul is telling Timothy, Timothy, you've seen my love and you've seen my perseverance, and these are two marks that identify me as a minister of God. I want to challenge you and me, can people see love in our lives, love for God? Are they inspired by our devotion to God? Can they see love for people? Can they see that we're willing to do things for people, willing to sacrifice for people? Do people see our perseverance that even though we face difficulties, we keep pressing through? Do they see that we are people who are in this for the long run, that we have endurance, we've got stamina and we keep persevering, we keep pressing in, do people see that embodied/ demonstrated in our lives? They need to, these are two marks of a minister of God. Let's pray, Father, we ask that people will see love in our lives and people that see perseverance demonstrated in our lives, give us this grace, we pray, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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