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“For which cause we faint not…while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:16,18).
Here is one final reason not to faint, and again, it is the same word in Greek as we had on October 18th. It is true that sometimes the problems we have in this life seem to be so big that we think we cannot handle them. However, the Lord wants us to go to Him, for He will give us the strength to handle those problems. He has allowed them in our life, and He knows just what He is doing.
As we see in our second verse today, the Lord wants to direct our eyes to the things which we can see only by faith. Everything in this world is temporal; it will eventually come to an end, even our problems. But there are things that are eternal, and the Lord wants us to look at them. We can get so taken up with things in this world, and forget that what really matters are those eternal things. When we think about those things, the problems in this world seem quite small.
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