Momentary Affliction

April 3

What does God think of our suffering? He gives every indication that He desires to help us through it. Jeremiah 33:3 sums up His position succinctly and wonderfully. Here He says, “Call unto Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things you cannot imagine.”

God wants us to be blessed. A rather folksy way church people have of stating that truth is that He wants to, “bless your socks off.” Those who believe in and anticipate the miraculous intervention of our awesome God into our circumstances believe He is unchanging.

We believe that the miracles He performed through the pages of the Old and New Testaments are patterns for us today. We saw Moses part the Red Sea, we saw the Heavenly Host defend Elijah from an attacking army, we saw what Jesus did when people placed their needs at His feet and we are encouraged to believe that it is His will to operate in the same miraculous realm today.

Yet—when He does not choose to reveal His power through the extraordinary methods He can use if He so desires, He has another assurance for those who believe. II Corinthians 4:17 says, “Our momentary affliction will produce in us an eternal weight of glory.” No matter what we go through here, it will be overcome when we arrive at our glorious eternal home.