Originally posted on Facebook on Friday, June 21, 2024.

I've shared it's been a difficult season.

I asked myself a question similar to King David's in Psalm 42:5, "Why are you cast down, O my soul?"

As life bears down, producing feelings of discouragement, I asked, "Where is the Power? Where is the eternal life -the inextinguishable life I'm supposed to have right now (and in the life to come) [John 11:25-26]?"

Then I found 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 to be true,

"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed–

always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body."
— 2 Corinthians 4:7-10

This season demonstrates "the excellence of the power", that despite circumstances that would normally crush me,

I am not crushed.
I am not in despair.
I am not forsaken.
I am not destroyed.

Because of power that is obviously not my own, so that God is glorified.

Life is hard right now, but I have it (inextinguishable life).

The proof is the joy of the hope I have in Him.

Thank you, Jesus.