The Marriage of Sorrow With Joy
Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m in an ocean of things to worry about, they come at me in waves of “what if’s,” “maybe’s,” and real losses. I seem to be semi-afloat but I feel like I’m t...
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We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:3-10 (ESV)
See also: 2 Corinthians 6:8-102 Corinthians 6:10
Scripture quotation is from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m in an ocean of things to worry about, they come at me in waves of “what if’s,” “maybe’s,” and real losses. I seem to be semi-afloat but I feel like I’m t...
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