“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”
We all face sufferings in the present, of various sorts and magnitudes. We may face physical suffering – pain, sickness, weakness. We may face emotional suffering – grief, loneliness, worry. We may face financial hardship, social ostracism, racial discrimination, and a myriad of other things. We may also face persecution as a Christian, to varying degrees. But Paul calls us here to stop looking at these things as occupying our lives, but instead to look to the future and the glory that will one day be revealed in us. Our resurrection bodies will have no physical limitations. We will be free from the curse of sin and its effects on us. We will dwell in the presence of God forever.
Whenever you come to a point in life where you wonder if it’s all worth it, take a moment to reflect on this verse, and others like it. The Christian life is much more than what we experience during the years we are on this planet in our mortal bodies. It is a stepping stone into eternity.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Cor. 4:16-18)
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