2 Timothy 1:12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
It is because Paul is a herald and an apostle and a teacher of the gospel that he suffers as he does. Most of his troubles came from persecution and the rest was due chiefly to his efforts to take the gospel far and wide and to care for the churches. He is not ashamed of his sufferings in any way because, as he says here, I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. Paul has not discovered a system or a way of life but has come to know and believe in a person and to him, the Lord Jesus Christ, he has committed himself, his person and all he has and is. He has done this, confident that Christ is able to guard what he has entrusted to him until that day that is the day of judgement. All Christians, and ministers especially, should have the same attitude. Yes we may suffer but we've committed ourselves to the Lord and there is no way that he will ever let us down. We can face the coming day of judgement with great confidence.
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