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Friday, May 27, 2005
Each year we turn over the Sunday School class to the graduating seniors, who dispense wisdom and things they've learned over the course of their time in our student ministry to the underclassmen. This week, on the site, I've taken some of their main points to provoke all our thinking.
Josh Gunter gave a speech and during it made this comment: "The definition of a Christian is like being an eternal optomist. Really, when you think about it, you'll always come out on top."
He then quoted 2 Corinthians 4: 8ff, "...we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body."
Then he skipped down to v. 16: "Therefore, we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day."
So, for today, do you agree or disagree that Christians are actually "eternal optomists?" If so, how do the verses above help you understand whatever trials you're going through at the moment? How is the life of Jesus "manifested" in our bodies? What do you do when you lose heart?
Brent 4:24 AM
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