Losing Heart...

“We do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed, day by day” 2 Corinthians 4:16.


You don’t have to be very old to understand just how quickly our “outer nature is wasting away.” I wasn’t even thirty when I looked at my hands one day and saw my mother’s hands. Lines, wrinkles, the whole bit.

It’s a little harder to see what’s going on inside. Day by day, moment by moment, we’re supposed to be growing spiritually. While the outside “goes to pot,” the inside is being polished and refined.

God gives us countless opportunities every day to grow our inner natures: sitting in traffic, cleaning up someone else’s mess, dealing with a child’s disappointing attitude. We can either ask for patience and perseverance - trusting God will deliver - or let our circumstances get the better of us. We all have things that eat away at our sense of peace and seem to block any kind of spiritual transformation. Do not lose heart; God provides a way out of every temptation and blesses us with real spiritual growth when we stand up to the test.