How you doin? Snow is looming. As if being half crippled isn't enough, now 2 to 4 inches of snow is foretasted. Our Father of compassion and comfort will sustain us through this difficult week. My heart goes out to the McKenna's and all couples who are dealing with what we are dealing with this week, but for a much longer period of time. The amount of grace, compassion, and comforting from God is mind blowing. Praise Jesus for sending the Comforter. 2 Corinthians 4 today.
Verses 5-6, "For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ." WOW!!!!!!! This is more verification of the hope that we have for the mystery of God... Christ in you, hope of glory.
Verses 7-12 are fairly famous verses. I've always read these as an outside job. That we are hard pressed on every side, perplexed, persecuted, and struck down by other people. That could be the case in the natural, but lately I've read these verses as an inside job. This is being crucified with Christ. Dying to ones self. Verse 7, "But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us." We are the jars of clay. Verses 10-12, "We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you." Hard to understand, I know.
Verses 13-15, "It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself.15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God." COME ON!!!!!!! It's the spirit vs soul. If my soul leads my spirit I'm out of sorts. The Spirit is connected to my spirit. I need to be Spirit led. That's a good word.
Verses 16-18, "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." WOW!!!!!!! I love this Scripture. In Psalms David often speaks to his soul. Questions his soul and commands it to be obedient to his spirit. By keeping my eyes on Jesus, this internal battle is won by what is "unseen". It's won so that grace "may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God". COME ON!!!!!!!
It's a blessing to have my soul hard pressed on every side, perplexed, persecuted, and struck down by the Spirit. It's so grace can over ride law. I want my spirit, that's connected to the Spirit, to led my tri-polar person. Spirit, soul, and body. People who are bipolar are getting gypped. I'm tripolar. Let your spirit partner with the Spirit and run the show today.
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