Sunday, October 28, 2012

2 Corinthians 4: 8 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. 9 We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. 10 Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.11 Yes, we live under constant danger of death because we serve Jesus, so that the life of Jesus will be evident in our dying bodies. 12 So we live in the face of death, but this has resulted in eternal life for you. 13 But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.” 14 We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you. 15 All of this is for your benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory.16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

some days I am driven to despair...
some days I am close to giving up....

all that we go through... we do not go through near what many others have gone through... there are still people being tortured and killed for the gospel in other countries... we do not go through anything like that...
we do have hurt and troubles and trials... these are the things God uses to change us... if we allow Him... otherwise we become bitter and angry...
somehow we have got to learn to keep our gaze on God.. we have got to learn to fix our ears to the voice of God.. and we have got to fix our hearts to the leading of God... these are the only way we can keep going forward day after day without being destroyed on the inside... God is good to us despite the things going on in our lives... somehow we have to still focus on Him...

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