If God Says You’re Qualified, You Are!
You shouldn’t be overlooked because of your age, gender, nationality, education, or financial status. People will try to put you down, but if you trust God, He will lift you. Timothy started preaching in his teens. He became Paul’s travelling companion, which was no small honour. However, in those days, society believed that one didn’t reach maturity until thirty, so Timothy was not considered qualified for leadership. Since Timothy was facing criticism, Paul wrote, ‘Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young…’ With God, it’s not the length of your life that qualifies you, but the depth of it. Look at Timothy’s credentials: ‘From childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures…’ (2 Timothy 3:15 NKJV). Timothy was nurtured in God’s Word and grounded in the truth. ‘When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also’ (2 Timothy 1:5 NKJV). So Paul writes to the Philippian church and says: ‘I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly…For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus. But you know his proven character, that as a son
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