He observed that it was all right to be exhausted from hard work, but inexcusable to be tired of the work. We sense that Paul's experience was exhaustion. Even as the three evangelists agreed that they must labor on as long as life and health should last, so too is that Paul's desire. As much as he wanted to go home to heaven, he realized that his times were in the hands of Almighty God. Paul and countless other saints have had no fears of death itself.
Death is but the door to the next life.
And if we are assured that heaven is our eternal home, we ought not to fear. But the house in which he lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering upon the foundations. Time and the seasons have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out, its walls are shattered, and it trembles with every wind.