Cut It Straight: Directly and Correctly*
The Apostle Paul wrote of how we should minister the Word of God to ourselves and to others: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing ( orthotomeo - rightly divide, to cut straight, to teach the truth directly and correctly, to make a straight cut, to proceed on straight paths) the word of truth." (2 Tim. 2:15). Cutting the Word straight, or orthotomeo , yields fruit in our own lives and in others' lives, and ties in directly to who we have become in Christ: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world , that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of hi...