Free Bible Commentary
“Colossians 4:7-9”
Categories: Colossians“As to all my affairs, Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow bond-servant in the Lord, will bring you information. For I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts; and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of your number. They will inform you about the whole situation here.”
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Paul had some kind words of high praise for two of his close friends that he was sending back to Colosse with this letter and information about Paul’s situation in prison at Rome. Tychicus and Onesimus were both Paul’s “faithful and beloved” brethren and servants in the Lord. They could be depended upon to always do the right things, and Paul could always count on them to carry out important and sometimes difficult tasks for and with him as they served the Lord Jesus together.
We are commanded by the Lord to love all people. But isn’t it much easier to love the people that we know will always try their very best to come through for us when we need them the most? That is the kind of person that I most want to be. I can’t think of a better description that I would like to have attached to people’s memory of me than “faithful”. I want to be a faithful husband, father, brother, worker, and most of all a faithful Christian. Tychicus and Onesimus were beloved by Paul because they were the beloved servants of the Lord (Ephesians 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:13) who served Him faithfully to the end.
Please read Colossians 4:10-14 for tomorrow.
Have a blessed day!
- Louie Taylor
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