GOD’S BALANCES
Are you going through a heavy trial? It feels like it is going on forever! I know this is how it feels to you, but can I ask you to put your troubles in God’s balances? Let’s see what happens. God says in 2 Corinthians 4:17: “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
Now things look a little different, don’t they? You feel your trial is going on forever, but God says that in the light of eternity it is MOMENTARY. It feels so heavy to you, but in the light of eternity it is a LIGHT affliction.
But there is more. When we don’t focus our attention on what is seen but on what is unseen, God works His grace in us as we go through the trial. God promises that these trials produce heavenly rewards.
He uses five adjectives to describe the glory you will receive.
Your trials work for you a (1) FAR,
(2) MORE,
(3) EXCEEDING,
(4) ETERNAL
(5) WEIGHT OF GLORY!
The CEB translation says that when we allow God to do His work in us as we go through our trials that we are sending up to Heaven a STOCKPILE OF GLORY!
Your present trials will seem like nothing when you see them as God sees them. Remember, the things that are seen don’t last, but the things that cannot be seen last forever. They are eternal.
Love and blessings from Nancy Campbell
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