2 Timothy 1:3
Paul continued his introduction of 2 Timothy 1:3, thanking God, whom he worships and serves with a pure conscience just as his forefathers did. He always remembered Timothy in prayers, making request for you all with joy night and day. This is a reminder to believers that we ought to pray without ceasing. Timothy needed the prayers of the righteous. False teachers were trying to take Christians back to keeping the law of Moses. So, when Paul was on his way to Macedonia, he urged this young minister, his son in the faith, to stay on at Ephesus so that he may instruct certain individuals not to teach any different doctrines (1 Timothy 1:3).
Paul once ignorantly persecuted the church but became the voice of Jesus’ gospel truth. Here in 2 Timothy 1:3a he declared that he serves God with a pure conscience. Each of us has a conscience, but because we live in a fallen world, we have made choices that are contrary to God’s will. What a difference a personal encounter with Jesus makes! If the redeemed walk in the Spirit, you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the Spirit stirs your conscience so you cannot do what you want to do. Paul’s desire became to “advance God’s program of instruction which is grounded in faith.” In 1 Timothy 1 he commanded Timothy to teach only the gospel, and do not pay attention to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith.
Lift your voice and give God thanks today.