2 Corinthians 4

I love Fridays, a lot of reasons. #1 being I get to get up and spend the time with my husband that we miss throughout the week. I get to hear what God’s doing in him and his heart. I get to make him coffee and cuddle up in my blanket and just spend this amazing time with my husband. And you know what we don’t know when or how it exactly happened???

Paul is pissed at the Corinthians here and his truths are just that, simple truths that are not yet heard and understood by the Corinthians BUT that doesn’t stop Paul from speaking/writing them. I don’t know when I heard / hear stuff as TRUTH? The process for me is filled with filters and doubts and questions……and I think I need to remember to give others the time to process as well and yet not stop speaking /writing His truths, that's why I center my blog around the bible it's the only real truth I've found....... Mostly what I write here is my processing…..how and where do you? process that is?

(msg) vs. 5-6 Remember, our Message is not about ourselves; we're proclaiming Jesus Christ, the Master. All we are is messengers, errand runners from Jesus for you. It started when God said, "Light up the darkness!" and our lives filled up with light as we saw and understood God in the face of Christ, all bright and beautiful.
7-12 If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with us. As it is, there's not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we're not much to look at. We've been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we're not demoralized; we're not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we've been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn't left our side; we've been thrown down, but we haven't broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus' sake, which makes Jesus' life all the more evident in us. While we're going through the worst, you're getting in on the best!
13-15 We're not keeping this quiet, not on your life. Just like the psalmist who wrote, "I believed it, so I said it," we say what we believe. And what we believe is that the One who raised up the Master Jesus will just as certainly raise us up with you, alive. Every detail works to your advantage and to God's glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more and more praise!
16-18 So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.

More yesterday of seeing the ‘snake’ that is me being about me…..that snake ain’t gonna be killed until the day I die, but I can yearn for that day. Live in this one broken maybe but knowing that my fix is coming.