TITUS 2 CLASS--WEEK ONE

We began a Ladies Titus 2 Sunday School class at church yesterday that will run for 8-10 weeks. We will study the 7 feminine virtues mentioned in Titus 2:-3--5: that the older women encourage (teach, train) the younger women:
1) to love their husbands,
2) to love their children,
3) to be sensible,
4) to be pure,
5) to be workers at home,
6) to be kind,
7) to be subject to their own husbands----
that the WORD OF GOD be not blasphemed, or dishonored, or reproached!

If we question what is important for us as women to invest our lives in, Scripture gives us these virtues as God's guidelines, or the plumbline, for us. What a heavy responsibility we bear; if we do not exhibit these virtues, we are blaspheming God's sure WORD!

Older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers (a word used 34 times in the NT to describe Satan), not enslaved to wine, teachers of good things, and these good things are the 7 Feminine Virtues listed above. I do not think the Apostle Paul was commanding older women to organize seminars, although they can be beneficial. I believe he was thinking more about day to day living--investing your life in another, being willing to take time to show and teach by example, We have a mentoring mandate. (Mentor was the name of the man Odysseus chose to train Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey.)

This passage addresses older and younger women, so it applies, no matter your age. How wonderful that God gave us clear instructions, and did not leave us to flounder! May we fulfill (I like to say " fill full") our role as Godly women!