Imagine that I dump 10,000 plastic eggs in your back yard. I assure you that
inside one of those hollow eggs is a check for $1 Million dollars with your
name on it. Would you get discouraged if you opened the first 100 eggs without
finding the check? How about the first 1000 eggs? Of course not! You'd
just keep opening those eggs, just waiting for the moment when you'd find the
check.
Paul knew the meaning of the word "suffering." He had been beaten, stoned, imprisoned, shipwrecked, starved, and rejected and that was just on Mondays. And yet Paul said that his sufferings were nothing compared to the glory that would come. In other words, Paul had opened a lot of empty eggs, but he never gave up or got discouraged. He believed that something great was in his future - God's glory revealed in him.
Perhaps it feels to you as if your life has been nothing but empty eggs. You've already opened 9,562 of them and you're not sure you've got the will to go on. Let me encourage you today. Don't give up. I don't want to trivialize the challenges you are facing, but I do want to help you put them into perspective. They are only temporary, and God has something much greater in store for you. Compared to the glory that will be revealed in us one day, our suffering doesn't merit discouragement.
A pearl to string: I don't know who wrote that but it was certainly encouraging to me so I wanted to share it with you. I drove a VW when I was a kid. I always knew when the gas tank was low I still had 3 gallons left in the reserve tank. Just flip the lever and away I'd go. God gave each one of us a reserve tank. Flip your prayer lever. Hang on. Don't give up. Keep going. One day God will replace your discouragement with incomparable glory!
"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us." (Romans 8:18)
Stay in His beautiful Sonshine
Paul knew the meaning of the word "suffering." He had been beaten, stoned, imprisoned, shipwrecked, starved, and rejected and that was just on Mondays. And yet Paul said that his sufferings were nothing compared to the glory that would come. In other words, Paul had opened a lot of empty eggs, but he never gave up or got discouraged. He believed that something great was in his future - God's glory revealed in him.
Perhaps it feels to you as if your life has been nothing but empty eggs. You've already opened 9,562 of them and you're not sure you've got the will to go on. Let me encourage you today. Don't give up. I don't want to trivialize the challenges you are facing, but I do want to help you put them into perspective. They are only temporary, and God has something much greater in store for you. Compared to the glory that will be revealed in us one day, our suffering doesn't merit discouragement.
A pearl to string: I don't know who wrote that but it was certainly encouraging to me so I wanted to share it with you. I drove a VW when I was a kid. I always knew when the gas tank was low I still had 3 gallons left in the reserve tank. Just flip the lever and away I'd go. God gave each one of us a reserve tank. Flip your prayer lever. Hang on. Don't give up. Keep going. One day God will replace your discouragement with incomparable glory!
"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us." (Romans 8:18)
Stay in His beautiful Sonshine
The
rainbows of life follow the storms
Know you are loved,
Lyndi
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