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...
A positive reflection for a new day...