Light and Momentary

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. (2 Corinthians 4:17)

Really?  Snow?  I don’t like it either!  This weather is for the birds.  After being teased with a few days in the 70s, here we are again - highs in the low 40s.  It’s probably partially my fault for putting away the snow shovels over the weekend and jinxing our weather.  Nobody will blame you for grousing about a snowy day on April 17.  Despite this current inconvenience, in a few weeks - maybe even a few days - we’ll be in the 60s.  Leaves will be on the trees.  The tulips will be blooming in Holland.  We’ll look back on April 16 and 17 with far less anger and annoyance.  Years from now we may tell our grandchildren this cautionary tale if they get too eager for spring.  No matter how annoying it is now, it will fade into a far less painful, and maybe even comical, memory.

I suspect that the new creation will do the same thing to the pain we experience now.  Paul describes it as “light and momentary.”  A few days of sleet and cold temperatures compared to a long summer of warm weather.  That’s not to discount the deep pain and struggle you have experienced.  It’s to remind you that an eternal glory that far outweighs it all awaits us in God’s presence.