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Do not lose heart (2 Corinthians 4:16-17)


Scripture of the Day: 2 Corinthians 4:16-17

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 

Every once and a while, we need a different perspective – “God perspective,” if you will. When I have a bad day, it tends to consume me. Instead of taking it as one bad day that will end, I look at everything that happens on that day and in my head I take it down a path to a horrible ending sometime in the future. And then I bring everyone down with me :(. In my house, as in lots of others I’m sure, it really is, “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!”

And then I read the Scripture above and what happens to me…?! The bad days don’t seem so bad in retrospect. Inwardly we are being renewed day by day! I think we know this is true – it is an example of why we should not go to bed mad – because when we wake up the next morning, yesterday’s troubles are a little more hazy. They are hazy because those days are gone! The momentary troubles of today, or even tomorrow, are worth it because someday we will have a glory that lasts forever and is better than our best day on earth could possibly be.

I would have much less regrets for words spoken if only I could look at each bad day as it is happening and think, “Hey, tomorrow this day will be only something that happened yesterday. Tomorrow I will be renewed. Today is a momentary glitch.”  The only way that will happen is if we pray about it – so here goes!

Prayer: (not closing prayer because it’s long winded!)

Heavenly Father God, please help me not to lose heart on the bad days. Help me not view each day as an end in and of itself – but help me look forward to tomorrow. Please help my head remember what my heart already knows – that inwardly I am being renewed day by day. Your glory is eternal and is waiting for me and any momentary troubles I have here are just that, momentary troubles! God, help me keep perspective and not lose sight of the hope that I am always more aware of on the good days. Please help me keep Your promises at the forefront of my mind and ignore the little blips on the radar of my daily life that interfere. I pray these things in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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