SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/11/2017
8:12 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Man with a Servant’s Heart”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
4:7-8
Message of the
verses: “7 As to all my affairs,
Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow bond-servant in
the Lord, will bring you information. 8 For I have sent him to you for this
very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage
your hearts;”
We ended up our last SD talking about Paul’s trip to
Jerusalem and then was imprisoned there and finally moved to Rome where he was
in house arrest for some time. MacArthur
writes “After Paul’s release, Tychicus remained with him. When Paul needed a temporary replacement for
Titus as pastor of the church on Crete, Tychicus was one of the ones considered
(Titus 3:12). Tychicus, who had begun as
a messenger, was now a candidate to fill in for as great a man as Titus.”
We also see Tychicus’ name in 2 Timothy 4:12 “But
Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.”
Understand that this was Paul’s last letter he wrote, and this came from
his second imprisonment where it would end with him being killed for the cause
of Christ. “Once again, Tychicus’s name
comes up as a replacement for one of Paul’s prominent associates. That speaks highly of his character.” We see from this verse in 2 Timothy 4:12 that
Tychicus was there with Paul during his last imprisonment as he had been with
his first one.
MacArthur writes “The writing of Colossians finds
Tychicus in Rome with Paul during his first imprisonment. By this time about four years have passed
since Tychicus joined Paul in Ephesus.
Because he is a man of proven loyalty, Paul has an important task for
him: He is to deliver the letter to the Colossians. Not only does he carry Colossians, but
Ephesians (cf. Eph. 6:21) and probably Philemon as well (cf. 4:9). The trip from Rome to Colossae was a
difficult one. Tychicus would first have
to cross much of Italy on foot, then sail across the Adriatic Sea. After traversing Greece on foot, he would
sail across the Aegean Sea to the coast of Asia Minor. After all that, he still faced a journey of
nearly one hundred miles on foot to reach Colossae. That he was entrusted with delivering three
inspired books of Scripture once again indicates Paul’s trust in him.”
We can see that Tychicus was a very faithful man, and a
great asset to the Apostle Paul. Think
about all of that traveling this man did for the cause of Christ, and if it had
not been done then we probably would have been missing some very important
books of our New Testament, books that tell us some wonderful truths that as
believes we need to know.
6/11/2017 8:33 PM
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