Monday: W19, Recovery

Training: Rest Day


Notes:

• This week is going to be an intentional lighter workload.

Daily Reading:
2 Corinthians 1-4

1.) Facts:

• Paul begins by acknowledging that he had to change his plans but still wishes to visit Corinth. He then speaks about the greatness of the new covenant in Christ and that our present weaknesses will not destroy us for God is faithful and just. Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an everlasting glory.

2.) Lessons:

• 1:7 - And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
• 4:2 - Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
• 4:8-12 - We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
• 4:17-18 - For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

3.) Applications:

• God is the God of comfort and He will comfort us in our every need. We are hard pressed on every side yet God will never abandon us. Death is at work in all of us due to our sin nature, but life is found through Christ. Everything we face in this world are light and momentary troubles. They are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs anything we can possibly imagine. Therefore we are called to fix our eyes on our heavenly father and not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. God is eternal, this world is temporary.