Captain Don writes in his sermon notes:
"I can never forget the exquisite delight of tasting the abundant life of Christ after twenty eight years of meaningless existence. But sweet still is the realization that the best is yet to come.
Whatever we go through in this life; that hope must be our focus.
Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" (2Corinthians 4:17)
This about this statement and the person who made it. Paul speaks of his share in Christ's sufferings as "momentary, light affliction." This is from the man who had known beatings "three times without number," was stoned three times, beaten with rods three times, given thirty-nine lashes five times, imprisoned multiple times (see 2 Corinthians 11:23-25), and is believed to have been eventually beheaded in Rome.
How could he possibly call all those things "momentary" or "light"? But they are when you compare those things with the eternal weight of glory.
Compared to eternity, everything in this life is momentary. Compared with the weight of the glories in heaven, everything is light. In fact, compared to any difficulty in this life, the glorious future that awaits us is far beyond all comparison. What will we ever despair if we can keep our future hope in sight. Let's look at that hope.
