{"id":1617,"date":"2010-09-20T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","slug":"tychius-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Tychius&#8217; Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse from Colossians 4:7-8 and\u00a0<strong>Tychius&#8217; purpose<\/strong>. One of the overall responsibilities of\u00a0Tychius\u00a0 was to deliver this letter to the church at Colossae. He was not only\u00a0to tell them of\u00a0<em><strong> Paul&#8217;s state of affairs<\/strong><\/em>, but he would to\u00a0return and\u00a0tell Paul\u00a0of <em><strong>their spiritual\u00a0state<\/strong><\/em>. One of his greatest purposes Paul said would be to <em><strong>comfort your hearts<\/strong><\/em> while he is there. The word comfort means to come alongside with inspiration to press on in the circumstances of life. Paul had composed this letter and\u00a0Tychius was to carry it to Colossae. I believe Paul felt they were equally important.\u00a0Our pastors\u00a0may deliver the message\u00a0on Sunday, but\u00a0it is our\u00a0devotional responsibility to pray that it would bear fruit. Oh, how both of these are\u00a0\u00a0equally as important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse from Colossians 4:7-8 and\u00a0Tychius&#8217; purpose. One of the overall responsibilities of\u00a0Tychius\u00a0 was to deliver this letter to the church at Colossae. He was not only\u00a0to tell them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}