Good morning. Paul says: for we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. It is easy to lose heart when one sees the body essentially falling apart. And it is hard enough just with the natural aging process; but if there's some sort of disease or affliction it makes it almost impossible to not lose heart. However our inner man, the one that really matters, can be renewed every day as long as we keep our faith in God and His word. Paul was under a lot of trials and afflictions and he still said: for momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison. Note the contrast: momentary and light affliction versus eternal and weight of glory. What he went through was definitely not light affliction, and I'm sure did not seem like it was momentary to him while he was going through it. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Remember from Hebrews Chapter 11 about faith and hope. We believe in what we cannot see. If we could see it, we wouldn't need faith. We cannot see ourselves being raised from the dead and yet we believe that it will happen. For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Note the contrast – tent versus building; the first is weak and lasts a short time, the second is strong and lasts a very long time. The tent is here, the building is in heaven. For indeed in this house we grown, longing to be clothed with that dwelling from heaven; and inasmuch as we, having put it on, shall not be found naked. Father thank You that we have that eternal dwelling in heaven - that strong building versus this earthly tent we live in now. Help us to keep our eyes on that, whenever something here on earth goes wrong with our earthly tent.

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