2 Chronicles 26-28, 2 Corinthians 1: 1-11, Psalm 119: 153-160
2 Corinthians 1: 8-10 (ESV)
“For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the
affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our
strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received
the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God
who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will
deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.”
In Paul’ second letter to the Church of Corinth, he wrote to
them of the affliction he had experienced in Asia and how he felt they had
experienced the equivalent of a death sentence. But Paul reminds us that
sometimes in a season of affliction every person of faith will have an
experience of death so we can know that the only person we can rely on is God.
We cannot even rely on ourselves. We can rely on God because only he can raise
us, resurrect us from a feeling of death. God delivered us in the past, now,
and will do so again in the future. As people of faith, we rely on God to be
faithful to deliver us from troubles that are sometimes so bad it feels like we
have died spiritually. But we must trust that God will always deliver us and
that in these constant experiences of resurrection, God will draw us closer to
him and we will draw ourselves closer to God.
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