Wednesday 12 June 2019
Looking Beyond Our Suffering
“Therefore
we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet
inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary
troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them
all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For
what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2
Corinthians 4:16-18). These are tremendous words of faith. They lift
our eyes above “our light and momentary troubles.” They set our eyes on
the “eternal glory.” When we see our times of suffering in this eternal
perspective, our hearts are encouraged in the Lord. Our suffering isn’t
the last word. God’s eternal glory is – and we will share in His
eternal glory – “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,
that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! …
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not
yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like
Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:1-2).
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