Ephesians 4:32
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Ephesians 4:32
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ sake hath forgiven you. “Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you for he is profitable to me for the ministry…the cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring with you, and the books, but especially the parchments.” II Timothy 4:11,13 These words were written by Paul to his beloved son-in-Christ, Timothy, shortly before he was beheaded with a sword in a Roman dungeon for political prisoners. These, as best we know, are the last words that Paul ever wrote. What Paul wrote to Timothy revealed the state of his heart and mind as he faced the lonely end of his life. Physical winter, as well as a spiritual winter, had come; Paul was feeling the damp cold and the need of the old cloke he had left behind in Alexandria Troas on the northwestern coast of Anatolia by the sunny Aegian Sea during a heady time of life. But there is something else hidden from casual sight in Paul’s words. None of the Jews for whose love Paul was sent bound to Rome were with him; in fact, the only one with him was Luke the Greek physician. Notwithstanding, there was someone he specially missed…a someone that Paul had haughtily dismissed from his company many years ago because he would not do what he wanted him to do. That someone was John Mark. Now Paul understood what a valuable man of strength and integrity Mark was. Now, a much humbler Paul asked Timothy to bring John Mark to him. When Paul said, “…he is profitable to me” he really meant, “I need him”. There’s a lesson in this for all of us. There’s a winter coming in everyone’s life at some time or another. Hang on to your friends and loved ones and don’t run them off for some imagined failure and remember that some of the things that don’t look so impressive now may be a great blessing at a later date when it’s “Top Coat Time” and reading the Bible is your principal comfort. http://www.wme.org/site/PageServer --------------------   |
    
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