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I Wouldn't Want to Go through THAT Again ... but

If you have ever looked back on something you have gone through that was horrible and said, "I wouldn't EVER want to go through that again, but I am glad for what came out of it," I think you are on to what both Paul and James wrote about. James penned those words I am not certain how to apply. "Count it all joy." I'd love to! Then come the words, "when you meet trials of various kinds." Okay, sure. What?! Somehow the knowing is supposed to help: "Knowing that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness." I like being steadfast. It is like that picture of the lighthouse being bashed over and over again by the waves, and yet it remains still beaming for all those who are looking toward it. Paul writes about that knowing too. Interesting to note that you cannot know something unless you have been through it. Some of us "know" things very well. Some of us live those things on a daily basis. Some of those things i

Glorification In Your Life Today

Have you ever been commended for anything recently? Perhaps you’ve needed a recommendation for a job and had to seek out your previous employers. Commendations are commendable, and recommendations are nice when they are favorable, but a re commendations and recommendations still needed today? Should they be sought out? What if they didn’t need to be? What would THAT look like? Paul opens a paragraph to his letter to a group of believers living in Corinth about this. They apparently lived by commendations and recommendations. We read in 2 Corinthians 3:1-11 , Paul’s opening question for the Corinthians is about commendation and if he and his co-traveling friends needed recommendations from others for them to gain a level of respect in their eyes. Paul is telling those believers that they themselves are Paul’s testimony, but of what? The work Paul and friends have done in their community. Paul reaches beyond the temporary world we live in to the eternal world

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