We need strength.
“You then, my child, be strengthened…”
- 2 Timothy 2:1
Discipleship can be difficult.
“Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.”
- 2 Timothy 2:3
God can empower us.
“You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”
- 2 Timothy 2:1
“29 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. 30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
- Isaiah 40:29-31
We empower others.
“2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.”
- 2 Timothy 2:2
There is a prize for those who press on.
“4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.”
- 2 Timothy 2:4-6