"Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel, for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained" (2 Timothy 2: 8-9).
I am up, awake, and ready for this night of work again; though it may be a small stage in life, the prospect that I am always on God's side (rather than the popular understanding that He is on another's side), for Him to mold my work at all times, is an abundant blessing. Paul wrote many letters and words which many Christians would encounter as well. The truth we believers must ground ourselves in is the truth that all the turbulence of the day is not something random; the troubles of this day have been ultimately caused by man's sins, and more obvious, man's pride--soon he will want to be called God.
Non-believers, if you so happen to be reading any of these words, I advise you to reconsider your own happiness, comforts, and affluence, by wondering what these things are based upon. You might say that they are based upon you, or possibly someone or something vaulable to you. You might base your life on love, but what kind of love? The love which reaches only so far as to the end of this life, easily trampled and quite finiky? Think about this: the Word of God is not chained. The limitlessness in that foundation produces love for all time here and in eternity, where time is of no consequence. May you come to the base where the moth will not destroy,
where rust will not ruin, and where there will be no thief to steal your treasure.
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