Dear Paul,
Your letter and encouragment could not have come at a better time. Your love for me and my family is not soon forgotten and I know now not only my mother and grandmother have poured into me, but you also are in that lineage. Just as great waves pound against the shore line so do the enemies of the gospel pound against my faith , but your words and the faith that I hold close to my heart help me to not move away from the cross , but move towards it. Your words about Christ echo in my Spirit and reverberate from my lips with boldness and confidence. I am coming to realize that the youthful desires you spoke about are a hiderance to my flesh and Christ’s ministry so I push on even more to live a life that is pleasing to our heavenly father. I must tell you that the gospel is making inroads with using common sense and God’s word to quell arguments even though my flesh rises up I allow the Holy Spirit to rise higher in my speech and interaction with others. These last days you spoke of are troubling to my Spirit and I am confused of how our numbers for Jesus are growing that this thing will happen. I am using this talk of godlessness to propell my heart even more with Gods love to all who will listen to the gospel. Thank you for reminding me of your past and present troubles it has keep my life in perspective concerning the opposition I now am facing and has renewed the fire in my heart not to fight back , but to love back to those who blindly persecute Christ. Your charge has ignited my heart with the glimse of eternity in view I can’t help to say that I fear from your words that although glory awaits you my heart sinks with the feeling that Paul will no longer be on this earth, but I know that your example for Christ will live on down through the ages as much as the very land I stand on today as I write you this letter. When you mentioned the men who let you down saddened me. The fact that the Lord stood by you and encouraged you has inspired me and has givin me renewed strength for the road ahead. I now know that it is not just men defying you, but Satan himself who wants nothing more than to destroy the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.I think of the saying: the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and this ecourages me to step out in faith .God bless you and see you in eternity.
Your son Timothy
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