Before Your Eyes

7 Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we. 8 For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed. 9 I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.” 11 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present. 12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
2 Co 10:7–12

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Before Your Eyes
What is before your eyes may deceive you. The things of God seem like weak and insignificant things compared to the strength of the world. But God chose the weak things and the insignificant things to deliver his great power and might. In the water sprinkled and in the little bite of bread and sip of wine and in the weak bodily presence of your pastor, the Lord is mighty to save, to forgive your sins, and to make you whole again. It defies your reason and the world laughs at it. In the whisper of these things, God, with all his might brings the Cross of Jesus and its forgiveness, life, and salvation to you. In the weak things of this world, God has chosen to give you the insurmountable fortunes of his grace. Walk, not by sight, but by faith.