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NASB | 2 Corinthians 4:17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 4:17 For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor and an endless blessedness]! |
Bible Question: my brother is dying, and I wonder why God is allowing him to suffer through his pain. |
Bible Answer: May I say first that I understand fully how you feel. I have a loved one who has suffered continually over the last sixteen years until my heart is almost broken, so I do not speak lightly. But I recognise that pain is the common lot of man (Romans 8.22). And it is of great benefit. It is because they are without pain that many lepers lose parts of their body. But should God interfere especially on behalf of Christians? Would it indeed be just? And besides God uses pain. For many a non-Christian the pain helps them to think of eternity. 'When God's judgments are on the earth the people learn righteouseness.' And on the Christian it can have a sanctifying influence 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.' (2 Corinthians 12.9; Psalm 25.18; Romans 5.2-5). Through the way in which a Christian bears pain a testimony can go out to the world. It was the blood of the martyrs which was the seed of the church. And who knows what good effect pain at the end may have on a person's preparedness to go to the other side? (1 Peter 1.6-7). In all this we have to trust in the love of the One Who Himself died in excruciating pain for us, and would take nothing to alleviate His own pain. He knows and He suffers with us and He understands and He cares. |
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