Come Before Winter

Friendship endures when everything else fails.

Paul says, “The time of my capture has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race I have kept the faith” (II Tim. 4:7 ). He’s done his best, and now he wants Timothy to come and be with him, to stand alongside him, to come before winter (II Tim 4:9, 21).

The old saint endured because of his friends. Is there not someone you know, a face that flashes before your mind’s eye right now, who’s existing in a cold winter of loneliness? Then you could be like Timothy and Paul to that person. But don’t wait. “Come before winter.” Don’t be like Thomas Carlye, the Scottish historian, who wrote in his diary after the death of his neglected wife, “Oh, that I had you yet for five minutes by my side, that I might tell you all. “Come before winter.”

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