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Wednesday... Yes, I can know.


2 Timothy 1:12b (NLT), "For I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return."

Wednesday... Yes, I can know.


Now Paul wrote two letters to this young man, Timothy who Paul called his true son in the faith. In the first letter, Paul had been released from prison in Rome and he had sent Timothy to Ephesus to handle a problem so he wrote to him to encourage and to train him as a leader. That letter started with Paul being release from prison. Now that was a great situation for Paul. 

But the second letter he wrote to Timothy was from a different situation. Paul had once again been arrested, imprisoned and then taken back to Rome where he expected to be tried and executed. These were two different situations. Yes, life can change

Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:11-12 (NIV), "And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day."

Verse 12b in the NLT says, "For I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return."

Yes, Paul in the first letter had been released from prison but in the second he was back in prison and probably wasn't coming out. Now, we love to praise God in the good stuff but what about the bad. 

Again Paul wrote, "For I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return."

The Amplified Bible says verse 12b this way, "Still, I am not ashamed; for I know Him [and I am personally acquainted with Him] whom I have believed [with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in the truth of the deity], and I am persuaded [beyond any doubt] that He is able to guard that which I have entrusted to Him until that day [when I stand before Him]."

The Message says, "I couldn't be more sure of my ground - the One I've trusted in can take care of what he's trusted me to do right to the end."

Yes, I also can know. No matter what is happening I can know Him whom I have believed with absolute trust and confidence. No matter what is happening around me, I can know that with Him I can make it right to the end. And we need to know this isn't the end, Heaven is! Yes, yes! todaysbeginning


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