Bible Reading: II Timothy 2:1-14
Key Verse: Verse 14 - “Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.”
Key
Words: put them in remembrance
As you
read the Scripture reading for today, you read about several things.
- We are to be strong in the
Lord (verse 1).
- Get
others involved (verse 2).
- Endure
hardness (verses 3-4).
- Endure
all things (verse 10).
- If
we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him (verse 11).
- If
we suffer for Him, we will reign with Him (verse 12).
But the
primary thing that Paul wants us to remember is not to quarrel and argue about
words. I have a saying that goes, “Don’t
go to war if you gain nothing by winning.”
Xanthus, the philosopher, once
told his servant that the next day he was going to have some friends for dinner
and that he should get the best thing he could find in the market. The philosopher and his guests sat down the
next day at the table. They had nothing
but tongue – four or five courses of tongue – tongue cooked in this way, and
tongue cooked in that way. The
philosopher finally lost his patience and said to his servant, “Didn’t I tell
you to get the best thing in the market?”
The servant said, “I did get the best thing in the market. Isn’t the tongue the organ of sociability,
the organ of eloquence, the organ of kindness, the organ of worship?”
Then Xanthus the philosopher
said, “Tomorrow I want you to get the worst thing in the market.” And on the morrow the philosopher sat at the
table, and there was nothing but tongue – four or five courses of tongue – tongue
in this shape and tongue in that shape.
The philosopher lost his patience again and said, “Didn’t I tell you to
get the worst thing in the market?” The
servant replied, “I did; for isn’t the tongue the organ of blasphemy, the organ
of defamation, the organ of lying?”
What to
do:
✞Remember this: “A fool
uttereth all his mind.”
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