Glory To God

DEVOTION
2 TIMOTHY
GLORY TO GOD
2 Tim 2:11-13
11 Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him; 12 if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us; 13 if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.
NIV
If I want to live with him, I certainly had to die with him. Which of me died? Was it the old self? Was it all of me? I still feel pretty much the same as I have always felt. I still have for the most part all the same temptations I always had. I still think again for the most part the same as I thought before I accepted Christ. The only difference is I am now motivated to resist those temptations, I am motivated to think about God a great deal more and my goals have changed. So, maybe a part of me has died or maybe all of me as I once really was died, and I am a new me. I do think about some of the same things, I still desire some of the same things but I also am not involved in those old ways and have a new direction for my life. So ok let me say I died, and now I live with him. It is an endurance race walking with God. There are sprinters and plodders. I am a plodder that is for sure. I know some who got all fired up about being saved, and soon burned and crashed, fell off the track and are back where they were before starting the race. I endure; I persevere, I make it through all sorts of terrain. I am going to keep on keeping on doing what God wants me to do. I may not be the fastest at it, but I am going to keep at it. No matter the course conditions, I will keep going and I am assured I will reign with him. No question about it. I am not about to disown him, I see no reason to. I cannot imagine I would ever have a reason to. Maybe the Government of this country wants to disown him, wants to crush and destroy any evidence of him from the public square so as not to offend anyone who hates him, but I will not ever disown my Lord and my God. I will stand on the rooftops if need be, and shout it as loud as I can, “I love God.” I am also extremely thankful that he is always faithful. I do not think I am faithless, but that Greek word also implies disobedient, and that I may be from time to time. I do not think it is possible to obey one hundred percent of the time, for than I would be perfect and that simply is not possible. So in those times I fail, he does not fail me, he remains steadfastly faithful for he has promised me he would be with me even onto the end. Glory To God!