March 26, 2023

Daily Devotion:

"Too Good for This World"

2 Corinthians 11:27–28

I have been in labor andhardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often withoutfood, in cold and exposure. Apart from such external things, there is the dailypressure upon me of concern for all the churches.

Now that's being underpressure. Paul even mentioned the disillusioning times of mistreatment andimprisonment. There certainly must have been times he did not know where toturn—or to whom. Doubt and questions might well have haunted him with maddeningregularity. Here was one of those great men, "too good for thisworld," being pushed around, threatened, and living on the raw edge ofconstant danger. If you imagine yourself in those many situations and toss inseveral imprisonments to boot—you can start to feel beaten down and defeated.Your mind plays tricks on you. You wonder where God is, and you occasionallyeven doubt God. You get disoriented, "mixed up" inside. And on top ofall that is the one most common experience all who have been in prison admit—profoundloneliness. Mix all that together . . . and you've got the picture.

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