Integrity

Today Paul speaks these words to Titus:
"healthy endurance"
"models of goodness"
"disciplined lives"
"character"

He sums it up with this:
"We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now. Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness."

Let your light shine before others...

This good, pure life is only possible if we have a deeply intense relationship with Jesus. Oscar Romero in The Violence of Love puts it this way, "How I would like to engrave this idea on each one's heart: Christianity is not a collection of truths to be believed, of laws to be obeyed, of prohibitions. That makes it very distasteful. Christianity is a person, one who loved us so much, one who calls for our love. Christianity is Christ."