March 29, 2023

Daily Devotion:

"Light Shall Shine Outof Darkness"

2 Corinthians 4:5–7

For we do not preachourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants forJesus' sake. For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness,"is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of theglory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in earthenvessels, that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not fromourselves.

We Christians have received apriceless treasure (the glorious gospel) in a very frail and perishablecontainer (our weak bodies). There is a reason. So nobody will have anyquestion about the source of power, it must be of God and not of any humanorigin. And so—to verify just how frail our humanity is, Paul lists four commonstruggles servants live with. I'm calling them consequences. Let's see all fourin the two verses that follow before we analyze each one in the next few posts.We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians4:8–9)

--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gerzon-etino/message