Safe at Homer

About 800 B.C. Homer wrote his iconic Odyssey about mythical King Odysseus who leaves home to fight in the Trojan War.  Mentor is the counselor’s name to whom he assigns the task of raising his son in his absence.

This tutor’s name identifies a type of coaching said to be “the third most powerful relationship for influencing human behavior after marriage and the extended family.”

Paul of the New Testament charged his young mentee, “Timothy, keep safe what has been entrusted to your care.  Avoid the profane talk and foolish arguments of what some people wrongly call ‘knowledge.’  For some have claimed to possess it, and as a result they have lost the way of faith.”

Who is your mentor?  Whom are you mentoring?  What “knowledge” is being transferred and kept safe?

“…the time is here for me to leave this life.  I have done my best in the race, I have run the full distance, and I have kept the faith.  And now there is waiting for me the victory prize of being put right with God, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that Day – and not only to me, but to all those who wait with love for Him to appear.”  2 Timothy 4:6-8