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1 Timothy 2:1-7  The Message

2 ^1-3 The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live.

^4-7 He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned: that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.

 

 

For Reflection 

Sometimes the "...simple and plain truth" is not so simple and plain when put into action.  How many books have been written to explain the plain truth?  The plain truth of the Christ event is only the foundation.  Living the plain truth increases our understanding of God's relationship to us and our place in God's kingdom.  Live the simple and plain truth.  Grow in grace.

Pray

^"3 The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live."