A mentor can bless you in many ways

Titus 2:3-4

Yesterday we explored Paul’s admonishment to Titus on teaching sound doctrine by the older men in the church, and today we look at the same for older women.  “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, (Paul goes on to explain what is meant by this) not slanderers or slaves to much wine.  They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”

How would things change if the older women began to see themselves as the teachers of sound doctrine, or we might refer to them as mentors?  Some do and some very smart young ladies seek them out to learn from them, but it is not the norm, it is the exception.  Is our culture that much different than those have been before us? 

If you have a good marriage and have raised your family and after that your children and husband can testify that you were a woman of great value, a person who had self-control, was pure and kind and lived in submission to God and your husband, you have great value to some young women who may not have been raised with those values, that is doctrine.

Both Jan and I have been blessed to have had mentors, and how we needed them.  Jan has had two Joyce’s in her life, Joyce Ryan and Joyce Ray and both of these ladies taught my wife valuable lessons that have enriched our marriage, and their investment did not come without some cost to them in the area of time.  But they were doing what Titus 1:3-4, instructs older women to do, and they were witnesses about how that investment in Jan enriched our home and family.  Jan has also been a mentor to many young ladies and has had the privilege to see marriages saved, young mothers learning how to love and respect their husbands and to raise their children in the doctrine of the Scriptures.  All of these ladies had the same goal; that the word of God might not be ignored, but that the young ladies would learn to put their trust in what God has spoken to them in His word?

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice