“Behave.” I think it was one of the first words I started recognizing as a toddler. By the time I started school, this word was repeated to me regularly. It followed me through school and didn’t disappear after I graduated. It seems to pop up occasionally in my wife’s vocabulary.
I can visualize myself in the nursing home and some poor, overworked CNA using that exact word to my chagrin. I’ll never get away from it in this life.
However, did you know that Paul used it when counseling Timothy about church order?
1Timothy 3:15
if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to behave themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
By the way, I was instructed about conducting myself in church when I was young. I didn’t always take it to heart, but I do now.
Give Timothy a read and give this devotional some thought.
Gary