Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
Colossians 4:7-9
Father God, send people into my life who can remind me of what others have done for me, how they have poured their lives into me, keeping ever before me the truth that You are at work for my good in the lives of others. Help me not to perpetuate feelings of isolation and disconnectedness from other co-laborers of Christ, but instead help me to stay connected with them, reminded that I am not alone, my circumstances not unique to myself, but that I am part of Your greater plan to redeem this world one soul at a time. Use them to highlight how You are at work elsewhere, bringing people into a saving knowledge of You, sanctifying them and using them to advance the gospel. Prepare my heart so that their stories can be not only be an inspiration to me, but also the fuel that drives me to endure what I am going through with the understanding that if You did it for them You can and will do it for me. Use them to show me what faithfulness looks like. Help me to allow the contagion of their love for You to shape my love for You, causing a welling up from within me and a longing and desire to know You more. Use them to encourage my heart this day, giving me what I stand in need of in the moment, so that I can stay the course You have laid out for me that I might glorify You in every aspect of my being. Today I resist discouragement and pursue Your joy. Raise up people around me to enable me on this path in Jesus’ Name and for His glory. Amen.