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Help For Discouragement: Part 4 Open the Gifts
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due Manifestation Magic Review season we shall reap, if we faint not. - Galatians 6:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. - II Corinthians 12:9-10
Content. Happy. Singing. This is not the response we expect from a man who has been through so much. We expect bitterness and complaints, not thanksgiving and praises. But still, I think he tops it all in the following verse. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. - II Corinthians 4:17
Light affliction? I don't consider shipwrecks or beatings to be light afflictions. What did Paul know that would allow him to stay so positive despite the constant trouble that surrounded him? Actually, it isn't so much what he knew but what he believed and focused on. He didn't just know that God would work all things according to His plan; Paul believed it and acted on that belief.
Many times we hear Paul speak of pressing toward the mark or striving to reach a goal. That was the secret to Paul's success. He didn't focus on the here and now. He looked to the future. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. - II Corinthians 4:18
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