Daily Devotional--1/5/10

1 Timothy 1:18-20

18Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, 19holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith. 20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

2 Timothy 4:7-8

7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

• What is Paul charging Timothy to do?
• In what ways can you “wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience”?
• What happened to those who rejected and blasphemed?
• How did Paul finish his life?
• What was waiting for him as he finished?
• In what ways can you; fight the good fight? Finish the race? Keep the faith?