Every heresy, every false religion will never be able to produce the kind of character traits that Paul is writing about in this text.
It's just a beautiful thing that God's done for us, to give us the truth of his word and somehow to give us a heart to receive it. And by virtue of that, enter into this life that's miraculous, and that's divine because God's power is working in us and through us.
It's an incredible journey we're on and God is the one that's going to make it happen. So, we can be at rest we can be at peace we can revel in it, we can enjoy it, we can let him do the work and we can even let the difficulties that we face in life, like Paul, instead of becoming a point of deficiency and a point of anger, and upset and offense on our part, it becomes our platform and a witness to believer and unbeliever alike, and a place where we learn how to be comforted by God in the midst of our trouble so that we too in turn can comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
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