Judgement
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If you go back 14 years from the time Paul wrote the second letter to the followers at Corinth, that places him at the time he was waiting in Tarsus. Quite probably, during one of his countless floggings he was given in Tarsus, or in a painful battle to survive being stoned, he lapsed into a semi-conscious state—something of a trance.
The point I need to make is, even in all that, he declined to boast in his giftedness. Instead, he admitted, “I will rather boast about my weak points, so the power of Christ may dwell in me. He learned to crow in nothing apart from his very own weakness. And, remember, he learned that in the shadows.
All they may know is that you dropped out of view.
It may begin with a horrible experience you go thru ,eg a sad accident or a devastating sickness. You’ll endure the discomfort of a torn reputation due to someone that failed to tell the truth. All that devastation has a method of breaking you. The Lord uses the discontentment to point you to your own Tarsus—otherwise known as His waiting lounge. There he starts to work deep in your soul till you, like Paul, gain such a replenished perspective, you can truthfully confess, “When I’m feeble, he’s strong.” When that occurs, as it probably did with Paul, you’ll be prepared to come out of the shadows.
If you go back 14 years from the time Paul wrote the second letter to the followers at Corinth, that places him at the time he was waiting in Tarsus. Quite probably, during one of his countless floggings he was given in Tarsus, or in a painful battle to survive being stoned, he lapsed into a semi-conscious state—something of a trance.
The point I need to make is, even in all that, he declined to boast in his giftedness. Instead, he admitted, “I will rather boast about my weak points, so the power of Christ may dwell in me. He learned to crow in nothing apart from his very own weakness. And, remember, he learned that in the shadows.
All they may know is that you dropped out of view.
It may begin with a horrible experience you go thru ,eg a sad accident or a devastating sickness. You’ll endure the discomfort of a torn reputation due to someone that failed to tell the truth. All that devastation has a method of breaking you. The Lord uses the discontentment to point you to your own Tarsus—otherwise known as His waiting lounge. There he starts to work deep in your soul till you, like Paul, gain such a replenished perspective, you can truthfully confess, “When I’m feeble, he’s strong.” When that occurs, as it probably did with Paul, you’ll be prepared to come out of the shadows.
