Respect..

Joe Ravi, CC-BY-SA 3.0
Greetings and blessings from the land of slush, ice, rain and some snow!

So glad to have you along this morning as I grab my cuppa and dive in. Respect..do you have this song running through your head?

Well, I’ll admit it..I do and Paul? How is Paul translating this word for his son, Timothy (spiritual parentage)?

Respect: “orderly, modest,” is translated “orderly” in 1Ti 3:2, RV, for AV, “of good behavior.” Both have “modest” in 1Ti 2:9. Cp. kosmeo, “to adorn,” kosmos, “adornment.” Also from Thayer’s lexicon, “a man of decorum, a well ordered life.”.

Sound similar?

I linked a picture at the top of this email. Look at the building..the lines are clean and strong. The color of the building is vivid. You see everything is “well-ordered.”

Now, look at this picture..

Richard Law

Time, weather, many factors have brought this building to it’s “lowly” state. Abandoned..

Easy question: which building declares to the world “respect me”?

Where am I going with this? Well, glad you asked. Our spouses, by God’s design, need our respect, our care and our love. They have a mission from God to:

1 Timothy 3
1THE SAYING is true and irrefutable: If any man [eagerly] seeks the office of bishop (superintendent, overseer), he desires an excellent task (work).
2Now a bishop (superintendent, overseer) must give no grounds for accusation but must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, circumspect and temperate and self-controlled; [he must be] sensible and well behaved and dignified and lead an orderly (disciplined) life; [he must be] hospitable [showing love for and being a friend to the believers, especially strangers or foreigners, and be] a capable and qualified teacher,
3Not given to wine, not combative but gentle and considerate, not quarrelsome but forbearing and peaceable, and not a lover of money [insatiable for wealth and ready to obtain it by questionable means].
4He must rule his own household well, keeping his children under control, with true dignity, commanding their respect in every way and keeping them respectful.
5For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how is he to take care of the church of God?
6He must not be a new convert, or he may [develop a beclouded and stupid state of mind] as the result of pride [be blinded by conceit, and] fall into the condemnation that the devil [once] did.
7Furthermore, he must have a good reputation and be well thought of by those outside [the church], lest he become involved in slander and incur reproach and fall into the devil’s trap.

Now, before you say, my husband is not running off to be a bishop so this isn’t for me or my family. Wait. Yes, Paul desires the leaders of the church to be above repute but does not God also wish for the leaders of each home to behave in this way as well? Is your husband not the leader of your home? Whether you have children in your home or not, praying for your spouse to become these verses is blessing for his life. And this is God’s design, for wives to love their husbands in prayer and supplication. Not to change them into what WE want them to become, but on the contrary, to fulfill the mission to which God has ordained for their lives. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20tim%203&version=AMP

Another video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWs-4tPGMGE

Blessing for life!!

One more section of Scripture:

1 Peter 4:
1SO, SINCE Christ suffered in the flesh [a]for us, for you, arm yourselves with the same thought and [b]purpose [patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God]. For whoever has suffered in the flesh [having [c]the mind of Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [has stopped pleasing himself and the world, and pleases God],
2So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills.
3For the time that is past already suffices for doing what the Gentiles like to do–living [as you have done] in shameless, insolent wantonness, in lustful desires, drunkenness, reveling, drinking bouts and abominable, lawless idolatries.
4They are astonished and think it very queer that you do not now run hand in hand with them in the same excesses of dissipation, and they abuse [you].
5But they will have to give an account to Him Who is ready to judge and pass sentence on the living and the dead.
6For this is why the good news (the Gospel) was preached [[d]in their lifetime] even to the dead, that though judged in fleshly bodies as men are, they might live in the spirit as God does.
7But the end and culmination of all things has now come near; keep sound minded and self-restrained and alert therefore for [the practice of] prayer. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20peter%204&version=AMP

Love you guys. Pray on! Pray on..