“Keep that which is committed to thy Trust”...the Wayfarer 4/20/14

“Keep that which is committed to thy Trust”
  4/20/14

“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.”

(1 Timothy 6:20 & 21)

Keeping what is committed to our trust is the responsibility of all Christians everywhere. What has been committed to our trust is in fact the only hope of salvation for the generations that have followed from the time of the resurrection of Christ Jesus, and all those who will follow after those of us who have recognized and accepted that new covenant that was given through that resurrection.

Trite as it may be, repetitive as it may be; I remind the readers once more of exactly what that trust consists of. It consists of the single commandment left us by Christ Jesus to love one another as He loved us.

That love must extend to the spiritual destination of those souls we come into contact with as well as the physical wellbeing of those bodies containing those souls.

It must consist of meeting the requirements of the Great Commission as stated in Matthew 28:19 & 20, and again in Mark 16:15.

That love that Jesus professed for us, expressed to His Father, which I have quoted again and again from the 17th chapter of John, is the same love DEMAMDED of us to be shown one another.

That love given by God Himself in the sacrifice of his son as we are reminded by John 3:16 is that same love that has been committed to us to keep and SHARE!

In a world so filled with the hatred of so many, so encompassed by the greed of the majority, so centered only on the here and now, that love is little in evidence among those claiming to be the followers of the ONE whose love was so pure that it took precedence over the very physical life of God’s Son in the physical body of a man.

The physical humanity of Christ is denied by some, as is the very deity of Christ. It is only through the fact that Christ experienced life here among us as a human, with all the temptations of humanity, that his comprehension of man allowed the Deity to love us to the extent of giving that precious human life, undergoing the suffering that was required so that our sin could be forgiven, and a means to communicate and commune with a perfect God made available to us.

Easter season is once again upon us, and the passion will be depicted in the suffering, the absolute misery experienced by our Lord… and most rightly so, because that suffering and misery are an important part of the love given us.

What needs to be celebrated is that with which we have been entrusted: that love demanded of us to be given one another, and HIM, that dedication to the continuance of that love through following the commandment given, and through the continuance of constant reminder and obedience of and to that Great commission.

What we have been entrusted with is nothing less than the complete gospel of Christ.

What is to be kept is also nothing less than all that is taught throughout that gospel if we are to successfully meet the single commandment and single commission entrusted to us.

I conclude in prayer that all turn to the gospels as given us in our scripture, take the time to carefully read, comprehend and follow the precepts given, and most especially recognize that need to:

“Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

I remain as always, nothing more nor less than that simple sinner saved by grace through faith having found that faith through the very gospels with which I and you have been entrusted. I remain also the soldier chosen to defend both faith and those gospels as a part of what I am to keep until His return.

2 Timothy 1:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹² For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day

Amen and Amen
the Wayfarer