Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that any opponent will be ashamed, because he doesn’t have anything bad to say about us. —Titus 2:8
Our lives as believers have a major impact on how those around us view and respond to our message. Just as we can cause people to revile the truth, we can also cause people to admire it.
Paul wasn’t afraid to speak out against the hypocrisy of those whose lives contradicted their message. To such people he would say, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you” (Rom. 2:24).
In Titus 2:8, he warns against that same hypocrisy, cautioning us to have no gap between what we profess and what we practice. The consistency of our Christian character should keep people from being able to accuse us of pretending to be something we’re not.
Just think. We’ve been given the opportunity— and the responsibility—to live in a way that people who have no respect for the gospel will be compelled to ooh and aah over its beauty. I pray this will be true of both your life and mine.
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Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together ©2017 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Scripture taken from The CSB
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Ask God to help your life be one that makes other people ooh and aah over the beauty of the gospel.