Today's Scripture:
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
Life isn't easy. Everybody faces heartache, disappointment, difficulty, pain. Think about your five closest friends. At least one of them is probably going through a breakup, parents splitting up, an addiction or sickness, or a failure. Maybe you're going through one or more of those things yourself. When you're suffering, God may seem far away. You may be tempted to quit: if God's not going to protect you from pain any better than that, what's the point?
But God never promised to shield you from hurt. He has, however, promised to give you strength to get through hard times. And more than that, he has promised a glorious future in heaven, so weighty and solid that the sufferings of this life will seem small by comparison. That can seem hard to believe when you're going through a hard time.
Nothing seems more real than pain when you're in the middle of it.
But God calls you to live by faith, to hold on to the hope of better times, not just in this life, but throughout eternity.
The cyclist Lance Armstrong said, "Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." When you're in pain, you want to quit. But take care not to let a temporary situation lead you to quit and miss out on the forever of God's Joy. In the big scheme of things, your earthly sufferings last only for a moment. So press on.
I request you join me in prayer for three of our own whom need that lift to help them through the trials they face today. I am again at Wayne memorial today and have prayed and visited with Ruby Woodall and Blake Grantham...Ms.Ruby had surgery to remove infection in her ankle and Blake too had infection in his finger that had surgery to help. Both were in good spirits and are having to sit and wait as the wounds heal and the medications do there part. I had a call asking us all to be in prayer for Christopher Keen as he is at Chapel Hill and is again being prepped for surgery. He has been waiting for his new lungs and they are here. Keep him and family in prayer as they begin this 10 to 12 hour surgery.
Selah people' and friends remember when you're hurting, take the long view. Pain is temporary but heaven is forever.
"Peace be with you even if pain is upon you, know that tomorrow will be a new day and the God of tomorrow is the God of today and eternity."
Your pastor,
Rev Muston (PreacherPatrick)
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