'Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal.'
2 Corinthians 4 v 16-20
This scripture came to me by way of revelation just before Christmas. It certainly provided comfort for me at the time and spoke to a number of others. Certainly, if anybody is qualified to comment about the transitory nature of suffering then Paul is having been through persecution of a very intense variety. It also provides a robust alternative to the current immediacy of our current life and expectations. It is true as the 'here and now' is important to us then it is important to God too but what stands for eternity - the invisible kingdom of God is what matters most.
For as Paul says elsewhere 'if our hope is in this life only we are men most miserable'.
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