No
Fault
May Be Found
With Our Ministry
We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s
way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we
have commended ourselves in every way; through great endurance, in afflictions,
hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless
nights, hunger, by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit,
genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of
righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in
ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as
unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see – we are alive; as punished,
and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making
many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Because God’s unbounding
love is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, is there any situation in
which we cannot experience the joy He gives? Pain and sorrow are inescapable
facts of life. Yet the Holy Spirit is our source of gladness.
Happiness
depends on happenings, but joy depends on Jesus.
Our Daily
Bread – May 6,2007