GEW-R-07 - That They Admonish - Investing My Life in Others in a Detached World

As we open to Titus 2:4 look at the first three words: “that they admonish”. This is the final quality God desires to see in every older woman of grace, which describes their lifestyle of admonishing, encouraging, or calling others to realize what God has clearly stated they are supposed to do.

This quality is God’s call for women of grace to wise living, encouraging counsel, discreet or focused living, and restraining life choices. In the English-speaking world, when we see someone doing something totally unprofitable, that shows they are oblivious to something far greater they should be doing there is an expression that goes something like: ‘you are just arranging deck chairs on the sinking Titanic’.

That is an almost 100-year old expression for ‘refocusing their attention’, or pointing out that there is something far greater they should be doing.

The term Paul uses in verse 4 captures that very idea for Christians. We are called by God to something so much greater than us, so much bigger than anything else we could find to do.