Older women . . . are to teach what is good. —Titus 2:3
You may struggle to see yourself as a teacher. Perhaps you envision a classroom or another structured setting. But the truth is you’re always teaching, simply by the way you live. Your conversation in unguarded moments teaches. Your response to gossip teaches. Your reaction to an unexpected problem teaches. The question isn’t whether you’re teaching; it’s whether you’re teaching “what is good.”
Many of a younger person’s peers, not to mention advertisers, constantly communicate their definition of what’s good—good to have, good to do, good to know, good to be involved in. And most of it, unfortunately, is not good.
The younger people in our lives need something to counter those messages. They need the voice of someone who teaches them what is truly good. And as a rule, they won’t learn the most about goodness in a classroom or from a well-known speaker. They’ll hear it and see it best from you with your hand close enough to reach theirs, with your wisdom, experience, biblical perspective, and love— connecting one-on-one, life-to-life with their specific questions and needs.
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Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together
©2017 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Who taught you “what is good” through their wisdom and example? How can you help teach it to the younger people around you?