Tuesday, April 26, 2011

At the End of Your Rope?

What I'm reading today; 2 Corinthians 4:8-12

We are hedged in (pressed) on every side [troubled and oppressed in every way], but not cramped or crushed;

we suffer embarrassments and are perplexed and unable to find a way out, but not driven to despair;

We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone];

we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed;

Always carrying about in the body the liability and exposure to the same putting to death that the Lord Jesus suffered, so that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be shown forth by and in our bodies.

For we who live are constantly [experiencing] being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death.

Thus death is actively at work in us, but [it is in order that our] life [may be actively at work] in you.
(Amplified Bible)

Everything that we go through; every wall we run into, is just an awesome way for God to be seen in and through us.

Blessings.

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