Start your day with knowing who you are; make your first words you communicate, whether by conversation or by message, be the truth of what you know and not what others think they know about you.
“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.”
2 Timothy 1:1-2
Until the day he was martyred; no matter the slander thrown at him, nor the situation of the prison he was in; he’s been beaten, whipped, stoned, shipwrecked, he’s suffered many dangers and hardships; but he knows who he is and he know whose he is, an apostle of Christ Jesus.
This is not ordered by himself. This is God’s will for his life.
There are times when we need to talk about who we are not what is containing us.
Your older now; your situation of life maybe more complicated; it could be that you have less time ahead of you than what has gone before; but your calling is still there because the promise never fades.
Look at those words again. The ‘promise of life’. What is this life?
The word refers to spiritual life- abundant life, eternal life, starting from the first day of meeting Christ. Death looms large, yet Paul begins by emphasizing life. This isn’t denial but defiance—a declaration that even impending martyrdom cannot diminish the reality of the life promised in Christ. Never let your predicament stop your ministry.
Missions Paul 