Are you going through difficult times today? The Apostle Paul went through just about anything and everything that life could throw at him. And he came out of each one – stronger.
Through all the trials and testing, he came out the other end of it and said, “I have learned the secret…” of how to win over any life circumstance thrown at me. Through every trial I was strong and was able to bear with it. He wrote:
12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound.
In any and every circumstance,
I have learned
the secret
of facing
plenty and hunger,
abundance and need.
13 I can do all things
through him who strengthens me.
– Philippians 4:12-13 English Standard Version Anglicised
He gives us a contrasting set of situations he personally overcame:
how to be brought low — and how to abound.
facing plenty — and hunger
abundance and need
Remember Jesus and Paul
We can see that Paul went through it all, and we can also – through Jesus in us. “I know”, Paul says, “In any and every circumstance” – I can deal with it. No matter what comes at me — I am strengthened by God to be an overcomer. “I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.” The secret is Jesus in me, the hope of glory.
13 I can do all things
through him
who strengthens me.
– verse 13 of Philippians 4:12-13
3 Just consider and meditate on Him [Jesus]
who endured
from sinners such bitter hostility
against Himself
[consider it all
in comparison with your trials],
so that you
will not grow weary and lose heart.
– Hebrews 12:3
FOR MORE:
Why all my pain and sorrow, my sickness and worries?
More than Conquerors in Christ
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