by Max Lucado
“Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.â€
2 Corinthians 4:17, (NKJV)
The words “weight of glory†conjure up images of the ancient pan scale. Remember the blindfolded lady of justice? She holds a pan scale- two pans, one on either side of the needle. The weight of a purchase would be determined by placing weights on one side and the purchase on the other.
God does the same with your struggles. On one side he stacks all your burdens. Famines. Firings. Parents who forgot you. Bosses who ignored you. Bad breaks, bad health, bad days. Stack them up, and watch one side of the pan scale plummet.
Now witness God’s response. Does he remove them? Eliminate the burdens? No, rather than take them, he offsets them. He places an eternal weight of glory on the other side. Endless joy. Measureless peace. An eternity of him. Watch what happens as he sets eternity on your scale.
Everything changes! The burdens lift. The heavy becomes light when weighed against eternity. If life is “just a moment,†can’t we endure any challenge for a moment?
We can be sick for just a moment.
We can be lonely for just a moment.
We can be persecuted for just a moment.
We can struggle for just a moment.   Can’t we?
Can’t we wait for our peace? It’s not about us anyway. And it’s certainly not about now.
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Max Lucado
From: It’s Not About Me
Copyright 2004, Thomas Nelson Publishers,
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Boy did I need this today. AMEN and AMEN
Many things-varied in nature- will weigh in our lives daily. God, the loving Father, places counter weights to maintain equilibrium
so that we don’t lose our balance and tumble.
This is because, He loves us with an everlasting love! Praise Him and Exalt Him. He is an awesome God. Amen!
Thank you for this inspiring devotional.
Oh! What an AWESOME Piece of devotional!…Truly, the heavy load of burdens – “Famines; Firings; Parents who forgot you; Bosses who ignored you; Bad breaks; bad health; bad days”; what have you, become light when weighed against the Eternal “Weight of Glory”. TRUST IN GOD! GREAT IS HIS FAITHFULNESS! AMEN
wow, i couldn’t hear this any other way. You were speaking to my soul. The burden was tocuhed and a little lifting was felt. I really do appreciate this. Thank you so much for expressing God through your words. We all need to be lifted up sometimes.
temperaments, abilities, experiences, spiritual gifts, education and sphere of influence. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 provides the context for GOD’s Unique purposes for our Lives and REMINDS us to develop an eternal perspective so that we will have a Passion to give Lives in exchange for the things that GOD tells us will ENDURE. ( Romans 8: 18 >>> FUTURE GLORY).
Apostle Peter reminds us to focus our Hope on the coming of JESUS, which would reflects the Holy Nature of GOD (1Peter 1:3-16).
GOD bless…
TRUE! that each of us is struggling in our daily walk with the LORD and how we
endure it; depends on how we stand firm in our FAITH to GOD…our Comfort, our Rock and our Strength to every circumstances that we struggle.Even just a spur of a moment is a BIG meaning because we either succumb to that trials and temptations or focus on HIS WORD that He will Never Leave us nor Forsake us. GOD has a Unique purpose for each of us that relates to our distinctive…
Even when I struggle I know that God is there for me to help me through it all.