Widows on the List (1 Tim. 5:9)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5-27-02

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  Widows on the list

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  1Timothy 5:9

            Message of the verse:  “A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man.”  As one might expect to be put on the list has different meanings in different commentaries.  It seems to me that the meaning of this is that if a widow is above sixty years old, and this means she is not likely to marry again, she will be put on a list to be able to teach younger women in the church, or to minister in different ways.  (See Titus 2:3-5)  The verse goes on to say that another qualification would be that she is a husband of one man and I think that this means at one time for in Romans 7:2,3 is speaks of a woman marring again after her husband dies.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  One of the things I see in this verse is faithfulness to both God and to one’s spouse.  This is important to God and thus should be important to me.  I realize that there are many times in my marriage that it would have been easy to give up on it, and even now with all of the troubles that I am going through with Sandy it would be easy to quit, God’s Word says otherwise.  I need God’s grace in order to accomplish His will from His Word.

The Word of God brought comfort and conviction to me today.

My Steps of Faith Today:  To trust the Lord to give me His grace to get along with my wife today.

Memory verse for the week:  Romans 5:20

Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound.  But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.