Fight the Good Fight

[Sung Psalm: 110]

In recent weeks many have talked with me in various contexts about the struggles and trials they face – and wonder, does it ever get better? Or am I doomed to face these struggles and trials forever?

Paul answers here. He warns against different doctrine – dissension, slander, unhealthy craving for controversy; he warns against imagining that godliness is a means of gain – and says that “those who desire to be rich fall into temptation – and through this craving “some have wandered away from the faith.”

It's not that the temptation will go away. Timothy has been Paul's colleague for nearly 20 years – but Paul thinks that Timothy still needs to hear the warning!