Friday, February 16, 2024

Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

  • Explore your fears and what’s behind them.

  • Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.

  • List out all that you are grateful for.

  • Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

Bible Text

2 Timothy 2:22-26

22 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 23 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Reflection & Application

  • What is the relationship between “flee[ing] youthful passions” and “pursu[ing] righteousness”?

  • Why is it important to do so “along with those who call on the Lord”?

  • How can I do this concretely?

  • How does repentance lead to a knowledge of the truth?

  • What are the lies of this world that I need to “come to [my] senses” about and repent from?