Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, he on whom we have set our hope. 

And he will yet deliver us, you also joining in helping us through your prayers, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed upon us through the prayers of many.

~~ I Corinthians 1:3-11

My heart is burdened beyond my strength, and I don't want to keep people unaware of it until it starts crushing me again, like it did before when I was relying so heavily on my own strength. I am faced with things I am not and things I want to be and everything is swirling around in my head faster and faster and I am fighting for perspective to see past this moment.

He will yet deliver me; please join in helping me through your prayers to the glory of God.

2 comments:

Beth said...

Thanks for this, Suzanne! I really needed to read this today. And I will be praying for you!

trudy said...

Me too; remember, this too will pass, and soon it will be Christmas! Think of the ramifications of that.