When Your Heart Is Tired, Lift Your Eyes
- 3 days ago
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2 Corinthians 4:16-18
“Therefore, we do not lose heart.”
There are days your soul feels like a phone at 2%—still on, but barely. You smile, you show up, you do the next right thing, and inside you whisper, I don’t know how much longer I can do this.
Paul knows that feeling. He says our “outer nature” is wasting away (2 Corinthians 4:16–18). Bodies ache. Sleep gets strange. Grief sits heavy. The world feels loud. But here’s the hidden mercy: while the outside wears down, God renews the inside. Day by day. Quietly. Faith isn’t you muscling up—it’s Jesus strengthening you where no one can see.
Then Paul lifts our chin: this trouble is real, but it isn’t forever. Compared to what’s coming, it’s “momentary,” and it’s preparing an “eternal weight of glory.” Not because pain is good, but because God is good at bringing good out of pain.
So don’t fix your eyes on what’s screaming at you—reports, bills, brokenness, 2 a.m. anxiety. Those things are seen, and they change. Fix your eyes on what lasts—God’s promises, Christ’s presence, resurrection hope. Pain says, This is the whole story. Jesus says, No—this is a page.
When you’re at 2%, you don’t need a pep talk. You need a charger. And that’s what Jesus is: strength for today, hope for tomorrow, and a love that will not let you go.
Have a great day!
Martin's Lutheran Church
