Often times God uses times of suffering and times of trials to remind us that this world is not our home, and every day we are in need of the grace of God. Every day, we need to be reminded that yes we sin, we are no longer bound to it because of the death of Jesus.  We no longer live under sin, but under the grace of God.  Likewise we are free to live a life of service and love towards others, an overflow of the joy we have in the love of God and delighting in His perfections – our inheritance in eternity, secure through the work of Jesus to the praise of His grace.  My encouragement today is to remember that our treasure is Jesus.  This is world is not as it should be because of sin – my sin, your sin, and the world’s sin.  But Jesus has died, and conquered sin, and overcome the world.  We have been reconciled to God, and the power of God in the resurrection of Jesus Christ in victory over sin and death lives in us, so that we can walk in freedom and joy.  Look to Jesus, and meditate on how He is better, more glorious, than anything the world could offer – our eternal reward, and rest in Him.

2 Corinthians 4:5-10 “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” 

Grace and Peace,

Adam