You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
6 For [gar] I [ego] am [spendo] now [ede] ready to be offered, [spendo] and [kai] the time [kairos] of my [emos] departure [analusis] is at hand. [ephistemi] KJV-Interlinear
6 For I am
already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has
come. NASB
As a person advances in age, there almost always comes a time when they look back and wonder just to where all of those prior years of their life, have vanished.
Wasn't it just yesterday when we were all young? How could ten years, twenty years, forty years have just slipped by with but a blink. When we were young the future seemed sooo far off, and now the past seems to have vanished without much trace. Even the memories have faded.
In history there have been famous people of note, that have commented as to their life and their value.
Napoleon said, 'I die before my time; and my body will be given back to earth, to become the food of worms.'
Gandhi, confessed, 'My days are numbered. I am not likely to live very long - perhaps a year or a little more. For the first time in fifty years I find myself in a slough of despond. All about me is darkness. I am praying for light.'
Talleyrand wrote, 'Behold, eighty-three years passed away! What cares! What agitation! What anxieties! What ill-will! What sad complications! And all without other results, except great fatigue of mind and body, and a profound sentiment of discouragement with regard to the future, and of disquiet with regard to the past!'
And here we have Paul who is well aware that his life is nearing its end. And yet without regret, without any indication of sadness, without any complaint, Paul will make a statement of confident accomplishment, hope and destiny.
Far too many people go through life believing that they have all the time in the world. They know the stories of God and Christ and heaven and so forth. They know of the stories of blessings and reward, and mansions and more. But the connection to these future realities never seems to enter into their daily life, during their life.
And time passes by, tic-toc, tic-toc, and suddenly all of that extra future time which is sooo far off, is suddenly behind you.
And you wake up in dismay, wondering just what you have accomplished.
Then you turn to the things you have. Your family, your career, your certificates, your possessions. But, these are just details of life and external to your life. They are not your life inside of your soul.
You are well aware that as you near the final closing of your eyes to this world, all of those things will vanish from you and remain behind. So what do you really have? Nothing.
For a long time we have studied the Bible teaching that you are writing your own song, your own story for your life, and one day it will be presented before Christ. Will your book be full of what God expects or just a bunch of empty pages?
And so Paul introduces to us, a hard fact of life, that none of us will ever be able to avoid - the end of our life.
Have we obeyed Christ with respect to our spiritual life?
Or, have we ignored all of the warnings, all of the mandates, and invented our own way through life because our way is more convenient and in tuned to how we want things to be, regardless of what the Bible says.
And far too many people think this way, and will one day look behind them and realize that they really lack the spiritual assets that they should have pursued, but did not.
So now, you have the opportunity to avoid making that mistake, the biggest mistake of your life. By getting yourself on track with a daily Bible study, with regular confession, with a daily program that will complete your life as it was designed to be completed, and with fulfilling your meaning and purpose as God intended for you.
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Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
