Eternal Weight of Glory (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 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.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

This is what we ought to believe that we are being renewed day by day inwardly although we are wasting away outwardly. That’s not fantasy or illusion, but true reality. Outer man is visible but inner man is invisible. The inner man is human spirit. The sufferings and hardships we are experiencing are not evil, nor unfortunate but working together to achieve for us an eternal weight of glory which far outweighs them all. So we do not lose heart but fix our eyes on what is unseen since what is wasting away is temporary but what is being renewed is eternal.

Since the fall of race in Adam, we believed what we ought not to believe, being deceived by the devil and sold to sin until Christ delivered us out of the bondage of sin and death. All man lives by faith either in the wrong or in the right. We are made so. Complaining and murmuring are the habitually entrenched response toward sufferings and difficulties. But now in Christ we ought to stop complaining and murmuring for we know the invisible qualities of life hidden in our troubles and bumps in our midst. They are all light and momentary and passing. We do not see yet what our glory will be, but believe that they contribute to achieve for us an eternal weight of glory, immeasurable and incomparable riches of glory in Christ. That’s the anchor of our faith.

So, we even rejoice in our sufferings (Romans 5:3). What we see is not all, but what we do not see is reality. We believe that there is a God who knows what He is doing according to the words of promise. Christ is the pattern of real man. The secret of His life on earth was to fix His eyes on the unseen Father in heaven. “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.” (John 5:19-20a) The Father and the Son was in the perfect communion all throughout His earthly life. Likewise, we who have been made alive by the cleansing blood of Christ are in the perfect communion with Christ Jesus the Lord.