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...
A friend shared this Bible verse with
me the other day, and I spent some time pondering it’s deeper
meaning.
The great American writer,
entrepreneur and publisher, Samuel Langhorne Clemens once said...
(Mark Twain)
“Some
churches actually fail to gain more members, because they make the way too
easy...”
Read though,
one more additional thing he said to finish this sentence...
“Conversely, the church that is
hard to gain membership into, is more likely to prosper
numerically.”
Twain wasn’t
known for being overly spiritual, but maybe he was onto something back in the
late 1800,’s.
God the
Father has called men to follow His Son, but He never made the way look
easy.
As a matter
of fact, it would seem that He made it appear extremely hard.
The way
Jesus spoke to His Disciples and perspective Disciples back when, the church
avoids preaching that way today.
What modern
day evangelist have you heard preach lately, about the
word...”affliction”?
“For whoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find
it.”
The great
preacher whom I love to read his material, (A.W. Tozier), is quoted as
saying...
“The
masses of professed Christians today, simply do not have the moral and spiritual
muscle to walk down such a treacherous path”.
Do the
people of the faith today, really have what it takes?
I wonder if
we’re all just really afraid, to tell people the truth anymore?
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