"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light and momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison." 2 Corinthians 4:16-17
Day by day. We are being renewed day by day. Every day is a new start. I love Easter Sunday, the reminder that death and the grave couldn't hold Jesus, that the cross wasn't the end, and that the Enemy would not get the last word. Everything seems new again on Easter. Every day is Resurrection day, according to Paul in this passage. We are renewed, resurrected in a sense, with every new day. And the troubles of today are producing in us the "weight of glory." I can't even wrap my mind around what that must mean, but it sounds delightful.
Day by day. The failures of yesterday don't define me. I am not a victim to who I was -- not even who I was 24 hours ago. The past is past. I can build on yesterday's lessons but don't have to be victimized by its failures and disappointments. Neither do the mandates and pressures of the future discourage me. Today has enough worries of its own; tomorrow will take care of itself until I get there. The Lord is sovereign over the future. My concern is today and the renewal that God wants to see take place in my life. Jesus died for all my yesterdays and all my tomorrows, so I have hope and resurrection power today.
Day by day. Every day is resurrection day, and the redemption story plays anew with every 24 hour cycle. I am free to experience the "weight of glory" in this day and to look forward to it, in incomprehensible amounts, in eternity. Thank you, Jesus, for this day, the freedom your resurrection has guaranteed for it, and the promise that I am new again.
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