This is good, and it pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:3-4 CSB
What is good?
Praying for everyone.
Praying for those in authority.
Because it pleases God.
What does?
Us praying.
What does pleasing God look like?
It looks like us praying for people.
Paul uses the phrase "God our savior", the word here is soter, from which we get soteriology (the study of salvation through Jesus). The root word is 'sozo', to save, and soter carries to save, to deliver, to preserve.
God is our saviour, our deliverer, our life preserver, and what we can do is pray.
It's God who does the saving. It's like Paul is telling Tim (& us) that he doesn't have to carry the weight of saving people. That's God's job. He's the saviour, deliverer, preserver.
Tim's job (& ours) is to pray. Pray for people. I'm not sure I do this nearly enough.
#peopletoprayfor
#beingthesaviourisGodsjob
#letterstoTim
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