In his final letter before his death, the apostle Paul wrote, “The time for my departure is close. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:6-7, CSB).
As Christians, we want to believe and utter those words when our time on earth comes to an end. We desire to stay faithful to God. Paul knew as long as he had air in his lungs his mission wasn’t over.
In his last letters (1 and 2 Timothy), Paul wrote to encourage his missionary companion and prodigy, Timothy, who at the time was a young pastor in Ephesus.
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