Younger Women as Your own Sisters 1 Timothy 5:2

It was First Year’s Orientation day. As a campus student ministry, we were helping the first years in registration and sharing the Gospel. We would print the documents and help with luggage to the halls of residence. So I met this first year and I helped her out. Then, I helped her to hostel. I her luggage. When we arrived, I told her, “welcome to the University” and I was leaving when she asked, “Why are you not asking for my phone number?” My heart froze.

We live in an age where it is assumed that a gentleman can never do anything for a lady for free. Whenever a man offers to help you as lady, be ready at the end he will ask you something. This is one of the tricks that has worked. But that not how things should be.

Paul, writing to Timothy, told him to “treat “younger“women with all purity as you would your own sisters.” Sadly, we live in a world where people pretend to be of goodwill while looking for any chance to manipulate others for their own purposes. We should help people expecting nothing in return. Help someone for the sake of helping not because you want them to do you a favor in return.

As Lennox Kalifungwa says the ordinary gentleman is the one who, “esteems others highly, honors all women and holds himself to a high standard of class. He is God’s man; exercising faithfulness and integrity, even at great cost.” Brothers, this is the kind of man we should be striving to be. Do good to all as a duty and not as a favor.

We have a responsibility as young men to treat sisters in the Lord as our own sisters. Sadly, many of us have failed in this responsibility. Either we have lived indifferently or we have taken advantage of them, fulfilling our selfish desires. The Bible commands us to treat those younger sisters around us as our own.

Are we treating the ladies God has brought into our circles as sisters? Truth be told, we have failed in this too many times. Even me did so many mistakes in the past. But we need to change the status quo. Let us pray that God may help us to live our days for His glory alone. Shalom.

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