Daily Meditations on the Bible / We stand with Israel
… and pleases God our Savior …
Summary: Pleasing God often sounds like a daunting task, yet our God is pleased when we simply trust him with our prayers.
If you were God, what would please you?
I suppose that is a rather silly question, but asking it helps us put ourselves in God’s position. If we were God, would we want our creation to please us, or would we have to compromise and “settle for” whatever our creation decided to do?
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This is good …
Summary: The concept of “good and evil” or “good and bad” is central to what the Bible is all about.
Reading Paul’s letter to Timothy is not really like reading someone else’s mail. Paul’s words to Timothy are also intended for us. We are the real audience he was writing for. In the same way, it is not really Paul who wrote the letter — God is the real author (2 Timothy 3:16). This is important because if it is God’s Word we are reading, then the phrase “This is good…” takes on special meaning.
Continue reading “1 Timothy 2:3a – Taste and See”