The Tuesday after the First Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on June 9, 2026 by under
Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:6-19 (NKJV)
6:6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, 15 which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Devotion
Neither the rich, nor the poor, is to be greedy or haughty, and certainly not one who has what St. Timothy has: the gift of godliness. Godliness gives the greatest of gain eternally and, if one is content with that, great gain for this life, as well. What could be greater gain in this life than knowing that such things as we are given by God are things which we have no need to store up and fret over, but things richly given by God for us to enjoy? We can carry no more of it out of this life than we carried into it, so rather than letting it snare us or pierce us with its arrows of foolish and harmful lust, we do with it what is best: sharing that enjoyment with others, so that they may also enjoy the goodness of the living God.
At the heart of such godly and contented living is, of course, the remembrance that godliness is not what the flesh thinks it is. Rather, it is that divine mystery spoken of earlier by St. Paul (1 Tim. 3:16): that which confesses that God the Son appeared in the flesh, and was testified to by the Father in His Baptism, Transfiguration, and Resurrection. In hearing and confessing Christ crucified we “lay hold on eternal life.”
Collect: O God, the Strength of all them that put their trust in Thee: Mercifully accept our prayers; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without Thee, grant us the help of Thy grace, that in keeping Thy commandments we may please Thee, both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
