# 5 2020 Devotional, Titus 2:11. What is Good? Read all of chapter 2. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw Gremar and I closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Titus 2:11 “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.”
In this chapter Paul tells Titus what to teach his people at Crete: “doing good for the sake of the gospel.” He covers all the age groups, the older men, the older women, the younger married women, the young men and those who are slaves.
Doing good here is how we live out our Christian lives; men should be “temperate, worthy of respect self-controlled and sound in faith in love and endurance”. The older women should “be reverent in the way they live”, not idle talkers or drinkers and teach what is good. Both older men and older woman should be the example to the younger generation. What Paul says about slaves can be applied today to all who work for others.
The gospel; the grace of God in Christ Jesus is offered to all people and it teaches us how we should live “so that no one will malign the Word of God” so that our lives “will make the teachings about God our Savior attractive”.
The culture in Titus’ day was loose, fast and idolatrous, our culture today is not much better, even so God offers salvation to all people. Paul is saying that how we live as followers of Jesus has a direct effect, either positive or negative, on the offer of God’s grace to this world. This passage is a wake up call for us to
re-evaluate our lives, to consider where we fall short, and to look to God’s Word and to much prayer in order to be better examples of God’s grace in our lives.
All of God’s people say: Amen!
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