Take Heart

These momentary troubles
Tugging downward on the spine
Exaggerating their weight
To lay me supine
Delighting to overwork me
To leave me vexed
Wither within the reality
Of their true context:

They are eternally weightless.

In comparison with the unchangeable
Weight and substance of glory
These pains are earning,
Tangible, intemporally
Radiant returns.
The lightened levy
Purchases in exponents,
And if it feels heavy

That’s the lie.

‭‭2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NASB1995‬

Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.