How to overcome the pains of life

I want to give a Word of comfort and hope, and encouragement for all of us. I want to talk about how to overcome the pains of life and resist, and overcome in the midst of trials, and I'm going to use two passages.

One is found in Second Corinthians chapter 4, Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 7. The apostle Paul who writes these passages, despite being a man of great power, greatly blessed by God, was also a man who suffered many trials. , difficulties, he was not exempt from suffering and suffering despite the fact that God had chosen him for one of the greatest spiritual works in the entire history of Christianity. However, Paul was a doctor of hardships, sufferings and sufferings.

But what always impresses us about him is that this note of victory and trust, and faith in the Lord is the one that is above all the other notes in his life, and reminds us that, despite the fact that we go through due to tribulations and struggles, we are not helpless but the Lord is with us and we always have to declare victory in the midst of everything.

And we can start for example in verse 7, Second Corinthians 4, it says: "But we have this treasure" the treasure that Paul speaks of in Acts, in fact it is the blessing of God in us, the Gospel that God has given us, the wonderful revelation we have through Christ Jesus. All the wonderful teaching that is contained in Scripture, the inheritance that each one of us has as children of God.

Paul says: This treasure, however, we have it in vessels of what? "clay vessels." In other words, it is as if you took millions of dollars and instead of putting them in a safe or a very beautiful and well-adorned chest, you put it in humble, brittle, fragile and clay jars. And Paul says: "We have this treasure of the Gospel in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of power is from God and not from us" so that God glorifies himself, not us, always; that we have to seek Him always.

"We who are troubled in everything" but what? "but not distressed; in distress, but not desperate." How many of us sometimes get desperate, lose hope and think like: there is no hope for me anymore, there is no future for me? Rebuke that in the Name of the Lord. The Christian is never desperate. You may be troubled, yes.

I believe that sometimes we can be troubled, we can be anguished, that is natural. I don't believe in that edict that is out there from many Christians: oh, what. For example, that little song with all good intentions and I have no problem, if you want to sing it, amen: "a heart that has Christ cannot be sad", I know what you mean, it's almost like a rhetorical statement: "no a heart that has Christ should be sad" but the truth is that sometimes we are sad. Sometimes the test overwhelms, and who has lost a loved one who is not saddened and not distressed? It is natural, but what we do not have to do is lose hope, lose security in God.

"We are in trouble but not desperate. We are persecuted but never abandoned; knocked down but not destroyed, always carrying the death of Jesus everywhere in our bodies so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies."

And why not also read verse 16 there a little bit from Second Corinthians 4, it says: "Therefore we do not faint. Before, although this outer man of ours is wearing away, the inner man, however, is renewed from day to day; Because this slight momentary tribulation produces in us an ever more excellent and eternal weight of glory." In other words, what the apostle Paul tells us there is that the tribulations we experience, instead of tearing us down, destroying us, putting us in a blind alley, make us stronger, produce in us an ever more excellent and eternal weight of glory. They make us heavier in the positive sense of the word, we have more spiritual weight in the Lord.

Later in the Epistle to the Philippians in chapter 1, Paul is in chained prison, two guards in front of his prison, some say that he even had a soldier chained to him so that there would not be a miracle of those that Peter experienced and he You were to escape in some mysterious way, you are not sure if you are going to die or live, if you are going to be crucified or executed, you are not totally one hundred percent sure if you are going to get out of that prison alive; there he wrote this Epistle to the Philippians, which is an epistle that overflows with joy, hope, happiness, victory.