4.24 Feeling Spiritually Drained? How God Renews You Every Day

"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 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." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (KJV)
Some mornings, we wake up tired. Not just physically tired, but tired in that deeper place, the place where life has been pressing in and the weight of it all has started to show. Maybe it is a situation that has not resolved itself yet. Maybe it is a relationship that still needs mending. Maybe you are simply carrying more than you let on to anyone around you.
Paul knew that feeling. He wrote these words from a place of real hardship, not from a comfortable chair in a quiet season. He had been beaten, imprisoned, shipwrecked, and rejected. And yet his answer to all of it was not to grit his teeth and push through. His answer was to look at something different. To look at what could not be seen.
That is a counterintuitive kind of strength. Our natural instinct is to focus on what is right in front of us, the problem, the pressure, the pain. But Paul says the things we can see are temporary. Every hard thing has an expiration date. Every trial is moving toward a conclusion. And in the meantime, something invisible and eternal is being built inside us that will far outweigh what we are walking through right now.
The practical word for today is this: shift your gaze. Not in a way that ignores reality, but in a way that refuses to give reality the final word. When the circumstances feel heavy, remind yourself that they are not permanent. Ask God to renew that inner man today, the part of you that does not age, does not weary, and does not give up when it is being fed from the right source. You are being renewed. Even today. Even now.

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