Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, and our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Well, we talked about how to find a mentor

yesterday, and today I want to talk to the other side, the mentors or wannabe mentors, about who we need to be as people, according to the Bible, what our main motto as a mentor should be, and what is the very best thing we can do to honor God in all of this. I really think there is one main thing, and it's actually quite easy. You ready to talk about it?

Okay. quite easy. You ready to talk about it? Titus 2 is probably the most famous chapter in the Bible about mentoring, and it has some

rich insight into what kind of people we need to be as mentors or leaders, counsel, that

pour into younger believers, a great resource for sure. But it's not the only passage that helps us know how to be a good example to other

believers and particularly younger ones.

The Bible is filled with Scripture that teaches us how to live in every single way,

from money to parenting, to marriage, to leading in the church, all of it.

So as mentors who invest in others, we are to be

seeking to live holy lives outlined by the Bible, and in turn teaching others how to live

holy lives. And even then, our practical daily lives fall under that umbrella, and we are

able to do them for the glory of God. So it's a teaching funnel, really, from the word to the

mentor to the mentee that pleases God. The mentor is a very important piece of that. And not only

does God want to use us to do that in our life, he takes that role very seriously. A mentor must be

worthy of that role, not by our perfection, goodness, because that's not possible,

but by our dedication to God, that we might inspire a younger believer.

The motto of every mentor should be this.

Follow me as I follow Christ.

If you follow the right kind of mentor, you really aren't following a human person.

You're simply behind them in the line of following Jesus Christ, and a mentor worth their salt will always remind you of that.

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