I came across this wonderful scripture tonight as I was reading my bible - after a hard day. I'm not feeling too well, today. Have a lot of pain. And the news of the day is so hard to watch. Then this:
(I am writing it in first tense, or the "I", instead of the "we" it is written in - I personalized it. For you, too)
"The grace of God that is being given to more and more people will bring increasing thanks to God for His glory.
So I do not give up. My physical body is becoming older and weaker, but my spirit inside me is made new every day. I have small troubles for awhile now, but they are helping me gain an eternal glory that is much greater than the troubles. I set my eyes not on what I see but on what I cannot see. What I see will last only a short time, but what I cannot see will last forever."
Wow This has given me such encouragement! I will read it often. Does it encourage you, too?
5 comments:
Yes, it's very encouraging to me, too! I love these words. I like that my spirit is getting stronger as my body fails me bit by bit day by day. There is hope in forever - YAY!
The older I get, the more I like this verse!
I also like the thought of my troubles are small, the troubles of the world are bigger, but the glory that awaits me in heaven is bigger than all of that.
I also love Corinthians Chapter 5:1-5
"For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down--when we die and leave these bodies--we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself, and not by human hands. How weary we grow of our present bodies. That is why we look forward eagerly to the day when we shall have heavenly bodies which we shall put on like new clothes. For we shall not be merely spirits without bodies. These earthly bodies make us groan and sigh, but we wouldn't like to think of dying and having no bodies at all. We want to slip into our new bodies so that these dying bodies will, as it were, be swallowed up by everlasting life. This is what God has prepared for us and as a guarantee, he has given us his Holy Spirit." It goes on and is worth reading the entire chapter. I love thinking about this.
Somehow, I missed your comment above, Linda! Thank you for it. I read the rest of the chapter (5)
I couple of verses I had underlined previously were verse 10: For all the truth about us will be brought out in the law court of Christ, and each of us will get what he deserves for the things he did in the body, good or bad.
verse 18: It is all God's work
verse 20: We are ambassadors for Christ; God is appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ's name is: be reconciled to God.
Good one. Thanks, Linda
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