“Guarding the Investment”

Advent Series #9: 1Tim 6 Our world is consumed with protecting investments.  Seminars are replete with:  give me your money and  I  will invest it and bring you dollars untold.  As  Paul closes this personal letter to  Timothy he leaves him with one charge and it has nothing to do with the investment of money. Instead, he charged Timothy and us in turn, to invest and protect the gospel message. We are to “protect what has been entrusted to you.”  [2Tim 1:14]

He has entrusted us with the precious gospel message. We are to protect it because it is the life-giving message of hope.  Practically we protect or guard this investment by being vigilant or intentional to stand firm in the faith. We conduct ourselves as a model of purity and righteousness.  We are to be a Christ-like model in speech,  conduct,  love,  faithfulness, and purity being conscious about how we live and what we teach.  Intentionally we are to “pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.” [1Tim 6:11] And we are to do it until  “the appearing of our  Lord  Jesus  Christ…” who is “the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.”[1Tim 6:15-16]

We, who are believers, are charged with being the guardians of the TRUTH. How are we at guarding the investment Christ has left us?