CQOD: 01/13/08 -- Bruce: the present affliction

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 13, 2008

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367
Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603

Meditation:
    I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
    -- Romans 8:18 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The glory to come far outweighs the affliction of the present. The affliction is light and temporary when compared with the all-surpassing and everlasting glory. So Paul, writing against a background of recent and (even for him) unparalleled tribulation, had assured his friends in Corinth a year or two before this that ‘this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison’ (2 Cor. 4:17). It is not merely that the glory is a compensation for the suffering; it actually grows out of the suffering. There is an organic relation between the two for the believer as surely as there was for the Lord.
    ... F. F. Bruce (1910-1991), The Letter of Paul to the Romans, An Introduction and Commentary, p. 159 [1997]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, strengthen me so that I might see the glory to come.

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