Karlyn: TWM Day 30

Good Friday Morning!  I did not want to hear this message this morning but it was exactly what my heart needed.

Going to Dan's cabin this weekend.  Harvest is FINALLY over and Ryan, the kids, and I are getting away for 1 day.  It's been a LONG time coming.

S - Titus 2:4-5 Older women are “to train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled [to think with a sound mind], [to be] pure [to have pure hearts], [to be] working at home, [and then to be] kind" (verses 4-5). Some of your translations say, “To be good.”

Acts 9:36 “She was full of good works and acts of charity.”

Luke 6
I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
“Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” (verse 36)

O - the points that stuck out to me...

This word is active goodness. You have a good or kind heart but you don’t just keep it in your heart. You do something about it. It comes out.

Goodness is kindness in action, words, and deeds.”

But I find so many women serving the Lord without heart, serving their families without joy.

We can start to get resentful. We can start to have self-pity. We can start to compare ourselves to somebody else’s life or wish for somebody else’s life and just be knocking out the tasks without the heart. But the Scripture here is talking about a motivation for serving, a motivation for homemaking that is goodness and kindness in action.

is a call to be selfless women, not selfish, not self-centered, but Christ-centered and other-centered. This is a word—this kindness, this goodness—that speaks of abundance. It speaks of the joy and the heart with which we fulfill our calling as women.

disciple of Christ and that she was full of good works and acts of charity.

It’s the call to proactively look for opportunities to be a blessing to others, to show the kindness of God to others, to take initiative.

When we as God’s children are kind to those who don’t deserve it, we show people what God is like.

A - I need to be in prayer today for making these changes in my heart.

P - Lord I'm not being very kind today and I need lots of grace and mercy to get this sin out of my heart.  Help me to serve others joyfully with active kindness because of your active kindness in my life!