Title
When Times are Tough
Scripture
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
(2 Corinthians 4:17)
Devotional
We must realize who it is writing this text, the apostle Paul who: "five times... received forty stripes minus one. Three times... was beaten with rods; once... was stoned; three times... was shipwrecked; a night and a day... in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of... countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."[14] How do your afflictions measure? He called his light. Nevertheless when compared to the eternal weight of glory that awaits us, no matter what the afflictions, they pale in comparison. He clarifies our text in Romans 8:18: "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."[15]