This Present Dying

Last weekend I didn’t come home on Friday night… well I didn’t come home because I was at a lock-in for high school students. At 8:00 Saturday morning after being up all night I limped home kinda tired. As I rolled out of my car, stumbled up the driveway and into the house my well rested bride met me at the door with a big smile and a statement/question: “You’re getting too old for those lock-ins?” My body was definitely agreeing with her assessment as I curled up and went to bed, but my mind going to protest until it realized that it had been shut down at 3 am in a fog of exhaustion.

And then (later in the week) I read this:

“…And as God's grace brings more and more people to Christ, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory. ¹⁶That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. ¹⁷For our present troubles are quite small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great glory that will last forever! ₁₈So we don't look at the troubles we can see right now; rather, we look forward to what we have not yet seen. For the troubles we see will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever.” _{2 Corinthians 4:15b-18}

Ahh! As Tony Compolo says: it’s Friday but Sunday’s a coming!