Most of us are like David who said, “And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.” (Psalms 55:6).
If you cater to sprouting a pair of wings and flying away from the trials and tribulations of this life, Paul has some words of hope and comfort for you.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. . . . .
17. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; . . . .
18. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Your affliction may not seem “light” or “temporary”, but there is comfort in hope.
One day, when this life is over and you step out of time and into eternity, you will find yourself relieved from the “light afflictions of the moment” and swallowed up in the “far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory”.
