PERSPECTIVE ~ What would you endure for Jesus?
What is your focus?
This morning, while reading the Word, I came to 2 Corinthians 11, where Paul says he is not speaking from the Lord, but asks that they hear him out, even if they must do so as fools. I love how the Passion translation opens this up, and so I simply wanted to share today not my words but the words of Paul, who, beyond any one of us, had every right to boast of his service to God and to man. What might the Lord be bringing to the forefront? In these difficult days, it seems far too many of His children walk away because of the least or smallest inconvenience. Maybe we all just need PERSPECTIVE...
2 Corinthians 11:22-33 TPT
22Are these “super-apostles” of yours Hebrews? I am too. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? Me too! 23Are they servants of the Anointed One? I’m beside myself when I speak this way, but I am much more of a servant than they. I have worked much harder for God, taken more beatings, and been dragged to more prisons than they. I’ve been flogged excessively, multiple times, even to the point of death.
24Five times I’ve received thirty-nine lashes from the Jewish leaders. 25Three times I experienced being beaten with rods. Once they stoned me. Three times I’ve been shipwrecked; for an entire night and a day, I was adrift in the open sea. 26In my difficult travels, I’ve faced many dangerous situations: perilous rivers, robbers, foreigners, and even my own people. I’ve survived deadly peril in the city, in the wilderness, with storms at sea, and with spies posing as believers. 27I’ve toiled to the point of exhaustion and gone through many sleepless nights. I’ve frequently been deprived of food and water, left hungry and shivering out in the cold, lacking proper clothing.
28And besides these painful circumstances, I have the daily pressure of my responsibility for all the churches, with a deep concern weighing heavily on my heart for their welfare. 29I am not aloof, for who is desperate and weak, and I do not feel their weakness? Who is led astray into sin, and I do not burn with zeal to restore him?
30If boasting is necessary, I will boast about examples of my weakness. 31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is eternally praised, knows that I am speaking the truth. 32Once, when I was in Damascus, the governor under King Aretas had his troops searching for me to have me arrested, 33but I was stuffed in a basket and lowered down through a window and managed to escape.Sheryl York 🕊️
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