Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth —2 Timothy 2:15
You don’t really know something until you can teach it to someone else. Many of the truths we claim to live by remain cloudy and undefined in our minds. Try to express verbally what you believe about Salvation or Sanctification, Baptism or Communion. If you find yourself mumbling, then you have some work to do. If you cannot express yourself well on each of your beliefs, work and study until you can. If you don’t, other people may miss out on the blessings that come from knowing the truth. Strive to re-express a truth of God to yourself clearly and understandably, and God will use that same explanation when you share it with someone else.
Much of what we believe is based on what we have been “taught” but have never really learned. You must struggle, experiment, and rehearse your words to express God’s truth clearly. Then the time will come when that very expression will become God’s wine of strength to someone else.
Sometimes we will come across a great expression of the truth and be tempted to adopt it as ours. Again, unless we can put it into our words and convey it to someone else, it really isn’t ours.
May the great truths upon which you base your life, your own and
Be bless and bless others.
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