We Do Not Lose Heart

Reflecting on the discussion in our small group last evening. The passage was relevant to how distraught some have shown themselves to be these past several weeks. Those with faith in that which is temporal have plunged into hysteria. Faith and hope have been misplaced, and they are frantic and distressed.

Yet God is raining on the just and the unjust, as He is righting some of the wrongs that have taken root in our national soil. And He seems to be using a Motley crew to do it. His ways, indeed, are not our ways.

Verses 15-17 of 2 Corinthians 4 caught my attention in our discussion:

For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 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.

Do you see it?  

For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God. 

God is always working for our good and for His glory.

And look again...

so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God.

For it is only God who can make a change for the good of America. His grace is spreading to more and more people. Thanks be to God. To Him be the glory!

Therefore, we do not lose heart.

Painting ~ Woman in the Open Air 1853, Alajos Gyorgyi Giergl 1821-1863