Welcome to the Feminine podcast. Thanks so much for joining me today.

Topic today is godliness. What is it exactly? And how do we get it? I thought it might just be a good topic, a little review over the basics. First, godliness is a

command. We say it in 1 Timothy 4, 7 and 8, but reject profane and old wives' fables, and exercise

yourself toward godliness. For bodily exercise, profits a little, but godliness is profitable

for all things, having the promise of life that now is and of that which is to come. All right,

so notice, godliness requires a negative action, that of rejecting the profane, and a positive action of exercising

ourselves toward what's profitable. We turn our back on one thing. We push ourselves toward a

different goal, a lifetime goal. 1 Timothy 611, but you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness,

godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. Again, you see this choice. You turn, you flee,

you run away from one thing, and then you pursue or chase righteousness, godliness. And there it is

again. So the context above is greed and all kinds of

evil. So we reject that way of life and we turn and we pursue another. It's not a casual turning.

It's a rushing away from danger and evil and a hurrying in a different direction. 2. Peter 1, 5 through 7,

but also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue, and to virtue,

knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance,

godliness, to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness,

love. Here we see just a real bouquet of many different things we are to add, faith, virtue,

knowledge, self-control, perseverance, and there's godliness again. You know, it keeps good

company, but we notice it still requires diligence. That means effort and attention. It's not that we

just drift into godliness by being lazy and distracted. We're commanded to exercise ourselves, pursue it, and add it. So let's define

godliness. Let's just take a minute. Well, the adjective is godly, which means pious or devout or holy,

and godliness is the noun. We're to be imitators of God, and the result is going to be godliness as a

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