SECOND CORINTHIANS
Paul’s second letter to the believers at Corinth is the most intimate of all his writings. You might say it is autobiographical. The old warrior did not want anyone to think of him above what they had seen in him or heard about him. (12:6) He lived in a glass house, so to speak.
This epistle is about a man giving it his best in service for his Lord. It’s about the ups and downs of a saint who was just like us; made of the same raw material. Because of this fact, this particular correspondence is a paradoxical account of his life; for that is what life is, paradoxical.
To cite just one account of this seemingly contradictory life read chapter six, verses eight through ten. “By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.”
From my earliest beginnings as a child of God, whenever I felt the roof was falling in on me, I would get alone and read this book through at one sitting. It never failed to comfort and encourage me! I always came away blushing with shame after reading the accounts of Paul’s sufferings and afflictions. How he gloried in these made me, as Ezra of old said, “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee..”
“The reason we get “comfort from the Scripture” is because it was written by the “God of all comfort.” Rom. 15:4; 2 Cor. 1:3
by an Old Disciple
Always an encouragement to read what God has put on your heart.
Thank you!!
Wonderful Brother Sandlin,all of these wonderful stories, Thank you!!
I consider You as much like Paul in your writings/ teachings.
In that you also are a man who teaches from the heart!!God Bless you for- ever!