Priorities

We join with Paul the prisoner once more, he was confined physically but not spiritually. In the local church, many had failed to help v 21 "all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christ's" but he had not despaired. He did not become bitter, instead, he wrote this epistle with its focus on joy and concern for others. In contrast here, how good to hear of Timothy, he was not like the others, he desired the things of Christ. That was his long-standing priority.