Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Light & Momentary troubles

2 Corinthians 4: 17
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
 
There are those who believe that sickness and sorrow are the result of sin in a person’s life.
I don’t think I buy that at all, although everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion.
 
Is the reason that John the Baptist was beheaded, was it because he was sinful?
What about Lazarus? Was he sinful, and is that why he died? I’m pretty sure the  bible says that Paul had an infirmity.
 
Psalm 34: 19 says…..A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all….. 
Sickness can be a byproduct of transgression, but I don’t believe for a moment that believers who are forgiven, are never afflicted.
Affliction is because of the fall of man in the Garden—period!
If sickness is a result of my sin, then I should be one really sick person.
 
I know that when God brings trial, it is often times for my own good.
Deuteronomy 8: 5….Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
 
C.S. Lewis once wrote…… “We have no right to happiness—we only have an obligation to do our Christ centered duty”………..

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