Delay

October 23, 2006

Joe,

Sorry to say, but I’m going to have to delay the start of our blogarama (yes, I just made that word up) on the gospel John until tomorrow. Joe, if you want to get the ball rolling you are certainly welcome to do so! But in the meantime, here is a passage of Scripture that is on my heart today, as I experience some frustrations and difficulties because of ministry. The words of Paul are a refreshment to my soul:

“23Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 24Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 27in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 28And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant? 30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.“

I am reminded of how little I really suffer, and to make sure that my boasting is not in the things that make me look good to other people, but the things which display my weakness. For when I am weak, He is strong.

Larry

Posted by Larry | Filed Under Scripture Meditation 

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