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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...

2COR 4:16  So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17  For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18  as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. In pursuing God’s glory we are looking for stages and arenas for Him to display Himself in our world, but we do not have to go very far at all; we begin with the everyday little things and work our way in to the bigger ones. That is where affliction comes in   working as the agitation of a washer and providing the friction needed for a good wash. The disciples asked Jesus, “Who sinned? This man or his parents?” Jesus answered, “Neither.” God wants to be glorified—He wants what is hidden to be made known, the hidden things about Himself put on stage as the h...

AS GRACE EXTENDS  SO THE GLORY GOES 2Cor 4:14  knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence . 15  For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving , to the glory (revealing? Fame? Beauty?) of God. I am somewhat new to the hair style scene. At least to the scene that requires extensions. I asked my wife about a lady's hair and how beautiful it was and she remarked back, "Oh you mean her extensions?" After an explanation I was lead to believe that the extensions were not a part of the lady's real hair, but it did make it look more beautiful. Extensions not only are for making things longer and more attractive but also for assisting in our getting across or over something that is in our way--a hindrance or hurdle. Take extension ladders for example. When you slide the extension part of the ladder up for use it allows for us to ...