DAILY REMINDER – Today, December 5’s Bible reading is 2 Corinthians 5-9.
NEXT DAY REMINDER – Tomorrow, December 6’s Bible reading is 2
Corinthians 10-13. May God bless you with the reading of His WORD.
2 CORINTHIANS MOMENT – (05DEC19)
“For while we are in this
tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to
be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be
swallowed up by life” (2 Corinthians 5:4). In the beginning,
when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, they did not know what nakedness
was. They had no idea of shame, embarrassment, shyness, nor humiliation – all the
things most modest people would normally experience on being unclothe in front of
a group of people. That freedom, nonetheless, ended when they ate from the forbidden
tree in defiance to God’s command. As a result, sin caused them to no longer be
free from shame, but an animal had to die to cover the nakedness of their new
mortal and destructible bodies.
Paul longed to be
finally done with his earthly body so that he could put on his heavenly one. He
had been well acquainted with suffering, persecution, beatings, imprisonment,
hunger and insomnia. He dared not complain, but he longed to be with the Lord
and yet, he knew that he had a work to do until his time was finally done. Paul
wrote that the earthly body could easily be destroyed, but for those who endured
to the end would be clothed in the righteousness of Christ. Until such time, the
apostle wrote that we are to live by faith and not by sight, so rather we are
in our mortal bodies, or our heavenly ones, we are to always make it our
mission to please the Lord.
So many people
have grown weary with life’s challenges. The devil has not made this life an
easy one and for those who have been dedicated to doing the Lord’s work, he has
worked on us triple time. Nevertheless, we must remain faithful to the end
because we will give an account to God for what we did with the time He gave
us. The Bible says: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while
in the body, whether good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10). Will
Jesus be pleased with you, or will He shake His head in disappointment? There
are many ways to do the Lord’s work rather it is in the four walls or outside
of them. Whatever you do, ensure that it is done to the glory of God because He
will reward accordingly for the things we have done in this temporal body, so
it really does matter. Something to ponder….
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