Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.

1 Timothy 1:18-19 NIV

Three things to consider here:

Life can be a battle sometimes. It's tough, and we have to fight. Fight our enemy, the Liar, fight the pressures of this world, the lies we've been taught, sometimes the desires of our own hearts, and sometimes we're in a battle with our bodies that fail or just get old. 

Life can be a battle.

There are and can be shipwrecks along the way. Interesting that Paul uses this picture becuase he survived more than one, which just reminds us that yes shipwrecks happen, even a shipwreck of faith, but they don't have to be fatal, they aren't necessarily the end.

And third he calls Tim to hold on to the truth spoken over him in the past. Hold on to when God has been at work, when you've seen his hand, when your faith was strong. These things will help in the battle. 

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