Thursday, September 17, 2015
Renewal through affliction!
2Corinthians 4:15-5:1 (NKJV)
15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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Being renewed by affliction, is something that most of us would pass, but Paul had found God at work in his life and could rejoice in it. He saw it bringing glory to God. That should be always our goal: Glorify God! Paul was always looking forward and upward! How about us?
15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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Being renewed by affliction, is something that most of us would pass, but Paul had found God at work in his life and could rejoice in it. He saw it bringing glory to God. That should be always our goal: Glorify God! Paul was always looking forward and upward! How about us?
// posted by Pastor Fred @ 12:44 PM 
