Lois And Eunice ~ Nurturers of Faith

Eunice was a Jewess who took the responsibility of teaching her son Timothy the Holy Scriptures, making him "wise for salvation through faith" (2 Tim. 3:25).  Her husband was a Greek Gentile.  He may have died during Timothy's early years.  In any case, there is no evidence that her husband ever cared to walk with a perfect heart before God.

Two factors molded Timothy's life.  From early childhood his godly mother Eunice and his faithful grandmother Lois touched his life.  Unknowingly, they prepared him for God's call to salvation and then for ministry by teaching him the Word of God (2 Tim. 3:15).  Later, as an adult, what he heard reaffirmed the gospel message, which was believed first by his mother Eunice and his grandmother Lois (2 Tim. 1:5)

During the apostle Paul's first missionary journey around A. D. 46, Eunice and Lois were converted to Christ in Lystra.  Reflecting a true faith (v.5), the lived out what they believed.  Paul affirmed that the same faith of Timothy's mother and grandmother was, subsequently, in Timothy himself, bringing joy to Paul. The faithfulness of this mother and grandmother to true doctrine, grounded in God's Word and kept by the Holy Spirit, was not easily swayed.

Eunice and Lois are valuable models.  Women can know God's Word, and they can faithfully teach it to their children.  Like Eunice and Lois, they can carefully nurture a true faith and be diligent to possess right doctrine.  They can model for their children godliness rather than worldliness and Christ likeness as opposed to self-centeredness.  Eunice and Lois are living testimonies that nothing is more important than a personal and vibrant faith modeled before her children.

See also Acts 16:1; notes on Grandparenthood (Ps. 71; 12) Motherhood (1 Sam. 1)

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