Judges 10:6-11:28; Isaiah 31″1-9; 1 Corinthians 9:24-10:13
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16
This fallen world’s sufferings are temporary; believers’ blessings will be eternal in the Father’s house. God sovereignly uses trials, which the much-tested apostle called “light afflictions”, as part of our sanctification, conforming us to the Lord’s image. Like a master surgeon skillfully wielding a scalpel, he employs all of life’s good and bad experiences to conform us to Christ’s image. This raised Paul’s perspective to turn from the temporal to the eternal. Likewise, we take the long view looking to the glorified Lord, as we await His return. —Keith R. Keyser
Every year we thought was wasted, every night we cried ‘How long?’
All will be a passing moment, in our Saviour’s vict’ry song. —Wendell Kimbrough