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May 8, 2018
Gospel ministry, Tim Savage explains, is a cycle that turns on three spokes: faith, speaking, and inevitable suffering. When we allow suffering to sap our faith, it can render us ineffective. When we see that suffering is only temporary, however, it can spur us on to greater trust in God. With Christ’s self-emptying love as our model, we can face hardship in the confidence that heaven isn’t just coming; in Him, it is already among us.
13Since we have xthe same spirit of faith according to what has been written, y“I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 14knowing that zhe who raised the Lord Jesus awill raise us also with Jesus and bbring us with you into his presence. 15For cit is all for your sake, so that as dgrace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, eto the glory of God.
16So we do not lose heart. fThough our outer self4 is wasting away, gour inner self his being renewed day by day. 17For ithis light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18jas we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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