Life has a thousand ways to break your heart. You must not let even one of them break your spirit. Life with all of it joys has a way of crashing in and crushing us. In these times we must not lose perspective nor heart. Remember, God is in all things working eternal glory in us, renewing the inner person day by day. These afflictions can’t stop the glory that God is creating in us. By grace they can only aid it!
Paul said, “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;…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” 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, 16-18 (NASB).
