Interesting choice. What makes you choose that?
Hi, money.
Some people turn to the Psalms when they're dealing with suffering of some sort. They find comfort in the writings. And that's fine, I suppose. But the Psalms were written to show Israel that they would be delivered from their tribulation in a physical sense. They show the wrath of God on the wicked, with justice being ultimately dealt out as Messiah sets up His kingdom, saving His people from the nations raging around them. We can take great application from the Psalms, but we in the Body of Christ aren't promised deliverance from persecution
here on this earth.
II Corinthians deals with suffering, too, but in a very different way. That letter shows how to deal with suffering
now, showing that we can rejoice even in the midst of the most severe persecution as we look not at the things of the flesh but at that which has an eternal weight of glory.
II Corinthians reveals Paul's perspective on pain and suffering in the flesh. We will never, in this flesh, be exempt from pain and suffering of some sort (some more than others). So I love this letter because we believers can read about Paul's trials, read his perspective on them, and shift our own focus on how we view the trials in our lives (sickness, death, money worries, etc.).
By reading the letter, we are exhorted to take our eyes off the things which are seen and keep them on the eternal.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weigt of glory; 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. II Cor. 4:17-18
Awesome stuff. I love II Corinthians.
Randy
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