Journal

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• A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
• A Guide to Self-Reflection
• A Chart to help articulate feelings

Bible Text: 

2 Timothy 2:20-26

²⁰ Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. ²¹ Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.

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

2 Timothy 2:20-21

• What are the dishonorable things I need to cleanse myself from so that I can “be an instrument for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master”?
• What are the good works that God has prepared for me to do?

2 Timothy 2:22-24

• 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?

2 Timothy 2:25-26

• How are people caught in “the snare of the devil” and “captured by [Satan] to do his will”?
• What are the lies of this world that I need to “come to [my] senses” about and repent of?

Prayer