I want to share another thought with you from our post below, DAY BY DAY. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 talks about the afflictions each one of us face, some more than others. I have to say that, for although we all feel that we face difficult times, none of us here in this nation face the torture, beatings, killing of husbands and children, heartache, and suffering that is happening right now to Christians in many countries. Christians are being persecuted in sixty different countries of the world, and we complain about the few problems we have to face.
However, whether our problem is small or it is huge, it always seems big to us, doesn’t it? But God tells us that in the light of eternity, they are “light” afflictions. Oh they seem so heavy and overwhelming to us, but we have to learn to look beyond the temporal to the eternal.
The trial you are going through may seem as though you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is endless. It keeps getting worse. But God says that in the light of eternity it is “but for a moment.” Who do we believe?
Dear precious ladies, we have to learn to look at our problems like God, who lives in eternity, sees them. We have to stop looking at them from our earthly point of view and see them from an eternal point of view.
And there’s more yet. God says that our trials are working for us a “far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” Wow, can you get that? God doesn’t waste words. And yet He uses five adjectives to describe the glory that we will one day receive--FAR--MORE--EXCCEEDING--ETERNAL--WEIGHT of glory!
We’ve got to change our thinking. We’ve got to change our perspective. We’ve got to think eternally! Our thinking changes our behavior. Our thinking changes our attitude. Let’s side with what God says rather than our selfish thoughts.
Be encouraged, dear nation builder, your trials are working the glory of Gold in you, now and for eternity.
Love from Nancy Campbell