i just read and re-read this passage time and time over and over again and I find it brings ever increasing help: possibly one of the richest chapters of all of scripture! We can persevere because of our Saviour! (see verse 7-11)
This is a massive paradox that the limitless power of the gospel is entrusted to us limited, frail human beings!!
We may be troubled but Christ helps us in our distress.
We may be perplexed but Christ’s power keeps us from despair.

C.S. Lewis said: “Pain and difficulty plants the flag of reality in the fortress of the rebel heart. God whispers in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

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