2 Corinthians 1:3 (Good News Bible)
1:3 Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all help comes!
1:4 He helps us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received from God.
1:5 Just as we have a share in Christ's many sufferings, so also through Christ we share in God's great help.
1:6 If we suffer, it is for your help and salvation; if we are helped, then you too are helped and given the strength to endure with patience the same sufferings that we also endure.
1:7 So our hope in you is never shaken; we know that just as you share in our sufferings, you also share in the help we receive.
1:8 We want to remind you, friends, of the trouble we had in the province of Asia. The burdens laid upon us were so great and so heavy that we gave up all hope of staying alive.
1:9 We felt that the death sentence had been passed on us. But this happened so that we should rely, not on ourselves, but only on God, who raises the dead.
1:10 From such terrible dangers of death he saved us, and will save us; and we have placed our hope in him that he will save us again,
1:11 as you help us by means of your prayers for us. So it will be that the many prayers for us will be answered, and God will bless us; and many will raise their voices to him in thanksgiving for us.
This scripture talks of a life that carries the cross daily and follows Christ.
Christ suffered for our salvation, that we may endure the suffering that comes upon us. As you and I go through the suffering, others aare coming into salvation. Furthermore, we will be comforted, for Christ was comforted. Why is this? Because God loves you just the same way as He loved Christ. If He would comfort Christ in all the temptations and tribulations so will He comfort us too.
Blessed are those who chose the path of the cross, those who carry the cross. We can't carry the cross, it is too heavy for us. Only by the Spirit can we do great things as carrying the cross. Blessed is Christ, for thruogh His suffering we are saved. Blessed are those martyrs, who with all deligence and hope suffered with Christ and carried the cross with Him, that we may be saved. Blessed are those, who carry the cross today and are partakers of Christ's suffering, that many be be saved. I thank You, God for Christ firstly, then the matyrs and for those who carry the cross today.
I speak these things, but I my self have always denied an oppurtunity to carry the cross, went behind pleasures that could satisfy the flesh, not knowing of the blessed comfort, peace and joy that God gives in these times of tribulations. Yes, it that very same comfort, peace and joy that Christ promised us, the very same that the world can't comprehend. But I am speaking out these words, cause of faith, that God will work and is already working in me. I pray, "God, that you will wrought these words into my heart, will inscribe Your will in my life. Such that Christ may be manifest and be made real in my life"
It is not possible by me to carry the cross, but I can do all things by Christ who strengthens me. To God be the Glory.
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