Everyone has experienced this situation. You’re standing at the crossroads. There is a choice to be made: one path or the other.

Paul is in a Roman Prison, possibly the Mamartine Prision. This was not a pleasant place as it was entirely underground.

How fitting, that the final section of this letter from Paul the apostle to his protégé Timothy, concludes with Paul’s own example of the charge he has given Timothy to endure and guard the gospel, even through suffering and persecution! - 2 Timothy 4:9-22