The season when your soundness becomes someone else's beginning.
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance: and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
Paul hands older saints a job description: teachers of that which is good. What good is your life teaching right now, even with no classroom and no title?
You have stored your soundness like grain in a locked granary, telling yourself you have earned the right to be left alone. The false refuge is the quiet of your own settled convictions — a faith that convinces you but reaches no one. A gift kept is a gift lost.
Christ did not guard his maturity as a private treasure. He became the teacher of the good and gave his body to the cross so that sound faith could be transmitted, not achieved. His Spirit now indwells you, turning your seasoned love and perseverance into something another pair of hands can receive.
Whose younger hands are waiting for the lamp you are holding?
Whose younger hands are waiting for the lamp you are holding?
Make me a teacher of the good by making me a giver of what you first gave.
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