We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
13 It is written: I believed; therefore I have spoken.[a] Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. 15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of G-d.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Jew, Christian, Whatever! Sarah is reminding us G-d wants us to persevere.
God bless Sarah Palin!
Amen and hallelujah!
Thanks. Yes, that’s an apt passage. I strive to put God first, and when everything seems to go wrong then it becomes even more obvious why that is so important.
If you really love your family, then you owe it to them to love God more. And if you really love your country, the same holds true.
If the second of the two great commandments is to love thy neighbor as thyself, it derives from the First: to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.”
Everything else follows from that.