St Paul, a great leader and servant of Christ Jesus was reminding me of the ministry that he had obtained from Christ Jesus. A ministry in which he was moving forward and forward even though there were lot of hindrances. His words “2Co 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;” sound the joy in doing this ministry even though he had to suffer hunger, or being bet many times for the sake of the Gospel. There appear words of being proud enough in doing the glorious ministry handed to him by God the Father and Jesus Christ. Another point I saw was that Apostle Paul was giving a message about God’s Mercy bestowed on them or to all who were doing the glorious ministry and another voice speaks to me where it tells that Paul depended upon God’s mercy to do all that he was ordained to do and so he boldly says “we faint not”. Can we say so? Do we say so? We all are so disappointed when we do the ministry. We always look towards others hands for financial support, or for any kind of help rather than on to God, who is nearer to us. We have it only in words, but in actions, we are lagging behind. We, the lazy or the OK attitude group cannot compare with any bold characters that we find in the Bible or who lived never looking downwards but with their high esteem of calling themselves the Children of God or Servants of God. For Apostle Paul, this ministry is GLORIOUS. Do we feel the same!!!
I happened to look the meaning for the word ‘glorious’ and it meant some more interesting words like: superb, magnificent, splendid, wonderful. These words are more life giving and it sounded like a familiar word that I use when something great happens in life or when I achieve something that I am eagerly waiting or wanting for. I have some knowledge about video editing and one day after I was able to complete a project I was working on for several months, many said or described it as a magnificent work/job and so did I too. I was filled with joy and later I was eager to show many the work I had done. Paul is talking about this joy in doing the ministry God gave him to do. He never did it for others; neither did it with struggles or with murmuring… Apostle Paul enjoyed in what he did for the Lord and his Saviour Christ Jesus.
Why Not we too consider this work as a Glorious one. Amen
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