The older generations in the church, in every era, must decide if they will respond to their successors as Saul to David or as Paul did with Timothy. In David, Saul saw his own mortality, and seethed with jealousy and envy, ending in the throwing of the spear. Instead, he should have seen God’s goodness, in keeping his promises to Abraham. Paul, on the other hand, spent his final moments shepherding and mentoring his successors: Timothy and Titus and others. Every generation has a choice: to go out like Saul or to go out like Paul.
