Be Trained, Be Ready

There are two verses that have been strongly laid on my heart since before the first of they year.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 - All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righeousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 4:2 - Preach the Word; be ready in season and out of season, correct rebuke and encourage - with great patience and careful instruction.

"...so the man of God may be..."

Isn't this what we are striving for as a Christian?  To be a man of God?  It's what I am striving for.  To not just be known as a man of God, but to live the life that a man of God would live.  To me these verses are key.  The scripture is so useful.  I see more and more relevance in scripture to my life and the lives around me the more I focus on and study it.  There doesn't seem to be a situation where the scripture doesn't have something to say.

We need training to be a man of God and we need to be ready at all times.  I learned just this last week that I can't take time away from my training and my preparation.  I did and I wasn't ready when a brother needed help.  I need to be ready at all times, I must be ready at all times if others are going to be looking to me for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training.

Pressing into Jesus, learning and studying are things we must continue to do.  It needs to not become something we do in this life, but how we live in this life.  It needs to become second nature; that is when we will be ready both in and out of season.  God bless!