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Paul and His Coworkers at His Last Battle at Rome

by William David Spencer and Aída Besançon Spencer,

Every army is like a single soldier.

Some of its bodily parts are functioning well.

Some are malfunctioning and harming the rest of the body.

Some are assigned to maintenance to keep the body militant functioning.

And the post-commander, like the brain, is multi-tasking—

accomplishing several goals at once.

So was the army of Christ, as commanded by the Field Marshall Paul at Rome.

This campaign was Paul’s final battle.

At his side was his medic Luke and the platoon at Rome: Eubulus, Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and the brothers and sisters—courageous and valiant each.

As any army or anybody, Paul’s command had its problems and its strengths:

Demas, the deserter, the body’s wandering eye, following after another general;

Alexander, a virus, doing great damage to the entire system;

Trophimus in the infirmary;

absent were Crescens and Titus;

off on a mission was Tychicus to secure the reinforcement—Timothy;

while maintaining other fronts were Erastus in Corinth and Prisca, Aquila, Onesiphorus and his supply depot in Ephesus.

This was Paul’s army of Christ, wounded, as was his own body,

as together they fought the good fight.

(February 3, 2013)