WILLING TO ENDURE ANYTHING

2 Timothy 2:10

I am willing to endure anything if it will bring salvation and eternal glory in Christ Jesus to those God has chosen.

It was Paul who said in 1 Corinthians 2:16, “We have the mind of Christ.” Paul put into practice the example of Christ when reaching out to the masses. Jesus was radical in His way, but it was all grounded in the Truth because Jesus is the Truth. Jesus healed a sick person during Sabbath and He allowed His disciples to eat during Sabbath. He wasn't trying to be irreverent, He was just showing that above all else the rules aren't as important as the people. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, He told them to begin prayer in this manner, "Our Father." Just uttering those words wasn’t even possible for the common Jew of that day. They couldn't even mumble "God," not to mention that they would need to be completely cleansed before saying “God.” Also, just to make their hallowed approach clearer, even a pen that would be used for writing "Yahweh" couldn’t be used for writing any other words. When Jesus arrived and began teaching the disciples to pray to God as their “Father,” it becomes even more evident that people were the most important thing to Jesus. Whatever the cost may be, we must do everything for every person to become a child of God. After all, Jesus paid the ultimate price for every person to come to salvation in reconciliation with God the Father.