Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching ...

Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching;

continue in these things,

for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

(1 Timothy 4:16)

These words are a the conclusion to 1 Timothy 4. Here is how Paul builds up to them:

• Have nothing to do with profane myths;
• Train yourself in godliness;
• Set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity;
• Give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhorting, to teaching; and,
• Do not neglect the gift that is in you.

Here, Paul's basic message is for Christian believers to work fully at living out our ethical standards of godliness that are shaped by these words of Jesus: love God, neighbor, enemy, and self.

To do such I must certainly pay close attention to myself to see that I am seeking to do so.

I advise you to make it your task today to do so as well.