On Things Above

Christian, God has a new name for you. You don’t know what it is yet, but this what
Revelation 2v17 says, that to those who overcome, God will give a white stone with a new
name written in it, that only you will know! The name Timothy means Honouring God, so do
you wonder what the name is that God will give you?
Today we are going to carry on through the next part of the book of Philippians 2v19→23,
and in this section we will get to meet a Christian whose name was Timothy. There isn’t
space here to discuss the life of Timothy, but if you want to learn about him have a look
here.
To remind ourselves of what is going on here, Paul is in prison and he is writing a letter
to his friends that live in Philippi. In this part of his letter Paul tells his friends
that he really wants to send Timothy to them so that he (Paul) can hear how they’re
keeping. What is really interesting is why Paul wants to specifically send Timothy, and
this is something we can lean about ourselves today.
Paul wants to send Timothy for one main reason; Timothy cares about them. Timothy really
cared about Paul’s friends in Philippi, and therefore Paul wanted to send him to them.
Timothy cared more about the Philippians than he cared about himself. Now for us today,
this whole idea of really caring more about another than we care about ourselves is a crazy
idea. Practically nowhere in modern culture will anyone understand that there is any
benefit in caring more about someone else above themselves. The only time that there is
anything nearly like this in modern culture is in the realm of family, but this is not
frequent.
So what about us, we are all part of God’s family, as Christians we have brothers and
sisters all over the world. Do we care for them more than we care for ourselves, do we
actually care for them at all? Take this opportunity to develop a Timothy (God honouring)
care for your brothers and sisters in the Lord, pray for them, take care of those that you
can. If you’re from South Africa have a look at this website else look here. Remember God has
a white stone with a new name on it for you, what will your name say about you?

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