God's Promises | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | January 23, 2025
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. |
| 0:06.9 | 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 18. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:16.5 | God's Promises was written by Karen Huang and read by Joyce Dinkins. |
| 0:23.6 | 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verses 16 through 18. |
| 0:29.6 | Therefore we do not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away, |
| 0:36.6 | yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. |
| 0:41.3 | For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. |
| 0:51.3 | So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. |
| 1:05.0 | God's Promises, written by Karen Huang. |
| 1:14.6 | It was painful to see my dad losing his memory. Dementia is cruel, taking away all the recollections of people |
| 1:18.6 | until there's no remembrance left of the life they lived. |
| 1:22.6 | One night, I had a dream. I believe God used to encourage me. In the dream, he had a small |
| 1:30.3 | treasure chest in his hands. All your dad's memories are safely stored here, he told me. |
| 1:37.0 | I'll keep them in the meantime. Then one day, in heaven, I'll return them to him. In the following years, this dream comforted me whenever my dad didn't know who I was. |
| 1:49.8 | I'd be reminded that his disease was temporary. |
| 1:52.7 | Because he was a child of God, he'd be permanently restored one day. |
| 1:57.6 | It also helped to remember that Paul described suffering as light and momentary in 2 Corinthians |
| 2:03.4 | 4 verse 17. |
| 2:06.2 | The Apostle wasn't underplaying suffering. |
| 2:09.3 | He himself had suffered much. |
| 2:12.0 | He was emphasizing that in the light of eternity and the future glory that's ours in Christ, our troubles are light |
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