You've Gotta Read This

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This is one of my favorite devotional places...and today's makes so much sense to me. I had been telling God when I woke up at 5:00am again - that I was hurting and tired. My baby came and got in bed with us and as I wrapped my arms around him I was comforted. I am so thankful for my family.

I rolled out of bed once again and grabbed my Bible...I went to Proverbs 31 devotionals and the Word of God comforted me even more. This life, as vain as it seems sometimes, has a purpose...and that purpose is to ready me for eternity. I know that I am not ready yet...but OHHHHHH how I want to be!

2 Corinthians 4:

7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

13 It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken."With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.