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“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).
I have always found this to be an amazing verse. In this life, we may sometimes go through a difficult time in order to get something we value. We may, for example, work very hard for something, but then afterwards say, “It was worth it, for I got what I really wanted.” We compare the hardship involved to what we have obtained, and are satisfied.
But today’s verse says that all the sufferings we may go through as Christians in this world are not worthy even to be compared to the glory that we will share in a coming day. The suffering will seem so insignificant that we will not even think about it.
Our hearts cannot imagine what that coming glory will be like. Paul had been caught up to the third heaven, and thus had experienced something of that glory. In a coming day we will experience it too!
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