Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Light Affliction

2 Corinthians 4: 17
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...

Someone from our church yesterday sent me a note, about why bad things only seem to happen to good people.
And yet before I delve into that, what truly determines a good person?

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 7: 20... 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
So I guess the Bible says that none of us are really good after all.

Maybe the affliction we have to go through on earth, isn’t that big a deal after all?
I’m not saying it’s fun to go through the low times, but maybe those low times happen for a very good reason.

I wonder how many people are in Heaven today, who are eternally grateful for cancer?
I wonder how many people who are Heaven today, are grateful for the time they were incarcerated?

The things we experience on earth are only for a brief moment.
The effect of the weighty earthly moment though, is working out for us something exceedingly better.

When something bad happens, why don’t we see any good in it?
Is it possible that God is trying to teach us something better, through a bad situation?

Maybe we should actually do what the Apostle Paul told us to consider?

Colossians 3: 2... Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

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