the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Titus 2:1-15
As well as those who are elders in the assembly (Titus 1:5-9) each Christian, young or old, brother or sister, must have a good testimony (vv. 2-10). What is laid down for servants applies to all the redeemed of the Lord. Few people do not have a superior to whom they are answerable and in any case each one should be able to call himself like Paul, a servant of God (Titus 1:1). Let us be "adornments" showing the importance of our Master’s teaching (v. 10; cf. 1 Kings 10:4-5).
Vv. 11, 12 show us the grace of God being shown in two-fold display.1. It brings to all men a salvation to which they could not attain themselves.2. It instructs the child of God, teaching him to live soberly in his personal life, righteously in his dealings with others, godly in his relationship with the Lord. The whole Christian life hangs on these three adverbs. And it is sustained by hope (v. 13; Titus 1:2; Titus 3:7). This hope is called blessed because it fills the soul with present happiness.
"God our Saviour . . . the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (vv. 10, 13; see also Titus 1:3-4; Titus 3:4; Titus 3:6): this title, contained in the name of Jesus (Jehovah is salvation) recalls that we owe everything to Him. Let us never forget this: He has not saved us unto ourselves, but "unto himself" (v. 14).
