Consolation out of Affliction
If we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation….Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2 Corinthians 1:6
Scripture reading: Isaiah 51:9–16
These consolations (relief, comfort) come out of deprivation (lack), affliction (anguish), and endurance (long suffering ). “Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead” (2 Cor. 1:9).
I pray to God that He may never find us “kick[ing] against the goads” (Acts 9:5). We may have to go through testing; divine healing, purity of heart, baptism in the Holy Spirit and in fire—we are tested for these truths. We will not be without testing. But the glory will rise. We go down into trials also to be sustained and brought out for the glory of God. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom. 8:31). “For our light affliction (anguish), which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor. 4:17). Oh, the joy of being worthy of suffering! How will I stand the glory that will be after? Amen
Blessings
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