One can learn a lot from Paul. Not only from what he wrote, but also from what he did. He had a number of talents at which he worked very hard. And nearly 2 000 years later we still enjoy the fruits of his hard work. Even though he did not do the writing himself (other people wrote down as he dictated), I'm sure that most of the times the words simply flowed. You see, that was his talent and because he understood what Jesus had done for him, he felt driven to use his talents to build God's Kingdom.
That's why he says: 1I, Paul, am God's slave and Christ's agent for promoting the faith among God's chosen people, getting out the accurate word on God and how to respond rightly to it. My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end. This is the life God promised long ago-and he doesn't break promises!
And Paul is filled with the Holy Spirit to the extent that he actually can't stop speaking about the matters of God. He cannot stop himself. Actually, every child of God should be like that. When someone believes in God and regards him or herself a Christian, he or she automatically becomes a servant of God.
In other words, God is served. And as far as I know serve is a verb. It is something that we must do. Paul served God by telling others about Him as he was instructed to do. And as Paul served God, he set me and you and a million other people alight.
We are confronted with the question: How do I serve God? The message is simple: If I am a child of God and understand His truths, I change into a servant.
Then I start serving God practically and I begin to do something. People will automatically see from my behaviour and actions in the world that I'm a doer and servant of Christ. However, the opposite is also true. If the actions of a servant are not visible, there is a big question mark over his servanthood. Such a person does not really understand the truth about God. Can such a person then actually be called a servant of God?
Paul wrote this letter to his beloved friend Titus to support him in his new congregation.
However, it does not only apply to Titus, but to you and me too. With this first verse Paul brings us to a stop sign where each of us has to first stop to see what our lives as servants of God look like.
We must make sure that we understand the Message correctly and live accordingly. We can't just muddle along, thinking we're on the right road. We can't just go through life according to our own interpretation of what a servant of God should look like.
We're so easily tempted from the right road and we so easily become comfortable that we don't even realise that we are on the wrong road.
We must make sure that we have the right truths. We must spend a lot of time and energy on God's Word, so that it can change us and help us to walk the road as servants. This road will be filled with actions that point away from the servant towards
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