Life comes at you fast and furious at times. It certainly came fast at Paul. He was stoned, beaten, plotted against, shipwrecked and snake bit all for his stand for Christ. But Paul had the big picture in mind. He called all of those things "light and momentary troubles". He was thinking in light of eternity. Today, in 2012, Paul is still in the presence of Jesus. Do you think he is still fretting about the injustice and discomfort he endured 2000 years ago? I don't think so.
Can we, like Paul, recognize that Jesus dies for all and that we now should live not for ourselves for for him who died for us? If we could have a truly eternal perspective, do you think that the list of things that we think are worth fighting for might change? They do for me. I find that fewer and fewer things are really worth parting company over. But those few things cause me not to want to part company but to reconcile a lost world with the One who died for all.
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