Galatians 1:4 KJV — "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:"
2 Timothy 4:10 ESV — "For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia."
People 'go' for different reasons but once they do they are absent from our 'present'.
Jesus gave himself in the past to deliver us now. God the Father wanted and wants to sustain us in our present circumstances no matter how hard or easy they are.
One day we will be the ones who are gone but God will keep those who come under the shadow of His wings... Jesus gave Himself for these and those deliverances.
In that passage in 2 Timothy 4 Paul missed those three... Crescens is never mentioned again... Demas appears to be backslidden... Titus is a leader Paul raised up... none of them are there in his 'present' and he misses all of them.
I can relate.... to me.... Crescens is that person i look for but can't find... the number i have is old and disconnected and no internet search brings them up in a way i can contact them... then there are the Demas people... addicts lost in addiction or people who now hate me for some unknown reason because i stayed where they left or think some dark thing about me.... then there are the Titus people who are moving forward in their call but we aren't making memories together. We will share the stories later.
I miss all three but God Is here and His daily deliverances are here.
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