We get so much security from sameness. I want to know it's going to be the same. Never mind that we've gotten bored and been bored for 10 solid years.

Never mind that he moved on out of it, not out of us, but out of that work, we're just serving right there.

No anointing of the spirit with it because he's like moved down the road where he said,

you know, I'm waiting on you, just whenever.

Here's the beauty of the word, and you know it, because if you have some seasoned time in the scripture, you have this in your history, you have experienced this over and over again,

that somehow, no matter how many times you've seen a passage, it will jump

out fresh to you, that it becomes something that you may have studied over and over again,

and all the sudden, it just takes fresh life to you, jumps off that page, and it is a word

that becomes now to you. And that was this word for me.

Second Timothy 1.

We're going to zero in when it gets down to around verses 9 and 10,

but I want to start from the top.

It's brief scriptures anyway.

2nd Timothy, this is Paul, of course, talking to him.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by

God's will, for the sake of the promise of life in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly loved son,

grace, mercy, and peace from God, the Father, and Christ, Jesus, our Lord. I thank God,

whom I serve with a clear conscience,

as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day. Remembering your

tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I recall your sincere faith that

first lived in your grandmother, Loisis and in your mother, Eunice,

and now I am convinced is in you also. Therefore, I remind you to rekindle the gift of God

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