The difficult circumstances that we have been through or are currently passing through, if allowed, can negatively mould and influence our outlook on life, how we relate to others and how we approach each day we live. Yet in a believer's life our "tomorrow" should be more greatly influencing our today than what may be dark shadows of past and present trials and sufferings.
The Apostle Paul had such a revelation of the "tomorrow" that God has in store for us as followers of Christ that he declared: 'For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.' (Rom 8.18) 'For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.' (2Cor4.17-18).
One secret to enduring trials and tribulations is seeing their true scale in comparison to God's overall plans and goals for our lives, not just plans for the near future but in the glorious eternal age to come after Jesus returns.
In Heb12.2-3 it says of Jesus, 'Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross . . consider Him ... lest ye be wearied.'
The key is to lift our eyes off the immediate now in order to gaze upon the Lord (Heb12.2a) and the future we have with Him - so enabling us to regain perspective.
May God grant us the same revelation that the Apostle Paul had, so that the truths of Scripture move from the pages of the Bible and are etched on our hearts as an unchangeable and unshakeable reality. This is how we won't just survive what we go through but overcome in it.
- sent from Palm T|T3
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