06 October 2025
Daily Devotion:
"Friends and Foes"
2 Timothy 4:10-12
New Living Translation
10 Demas has deserted me because he loves the things of this life and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus has gone to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Bring Mark with you when you come, for he will be helpful to me in my ministry. 12 I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
There's a misconception in the world that fame and fortune make people extraordinary, and the rest of us, well, we're just the ordinary ones. Do you ever struggle with feeling as if you're living an ordinary life? Tychicus probably would haveunderstood. Paul's name is mentioned more than one hundred times in Scripture. He served the Lord, loved believers, and suffered greatly, and he did it all well. He was, to put it mildly, extraordinary. No less amazing, however, was Tychicus, who delivered letters from Paul's prison cell to the people in Ephesus. His role of bringing the message was no less important than Paul's role of writing it.
We can begin living joyfully when we understand that ordinary is okay. Whether or not our names are mentioned one hundred times, we're known by the God who created us (Isaiah 43:1). What you do each day matters if you're doing it to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).
