“Stir up the gift of God which is in you
through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us
a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.”
2 TIMOTHY
1:6-8
Paul
does not tell Timothy to pray for a better opportunity, or passively
wait for God to rise up within him and overwhelm him. Timothy needed to
exercise the gift. He needed to stir it up. He had something to offer,
something to contribute.
Paul’s
exhortation was not to persist in false humility or
passive waiting, but to be proactive, to stir it up, and serve the Body
of Christ as a faithful steward. According to Paul’s assessment, it was
not a spirit of humility that held Timothy back, it was a spirit of
fear.
Source: "The Church in the Wilderness" by Chip Brogden
http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/the-church-in-the-wilderness
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