We Do Not Lose Heart

Hello Friends!

This Sunday we will look at 2 Corinthians 3-4. Paul used the phrase, “we do not lose heart.” Truthfully, many things can discourage us to lose heart, or want to quit, or to just give up. Our pain and hurt can cause us to say “it’s not worth it anymore.”

I wanted to share this quote from Wayne Jacobsen:

"No matter what circumstances brought to Paul, he knew of an inner refuge that could carry him through it and in the process seed the ground for greater joys to come. If we look for joy only in our circumstances, our sense of security will rise and fall with capricious tides of life. We’ll then see God as the one who must fix all our circumstances to make us happy, or be disappointed with him when he doesn’t. But if our pain can remind us to look deeper, to find a God who is bigger than the most atrocious things life can deal out to us, then we can find joy and thanksgiving no matter what goes on around us."

The perspective God gave Paul was a different one. May God bring us understanding and revelation to His perspective, not our limited one. We will land on this verse on Sunday: “but we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.”

In the words of Bart Scott, "CAN'T WAIT!"

Peace,

Karl Records