2 Corinthians 11:27 · World English Bible
2 Corinthians 11:27 Meaning In Labor and Travail
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
What does 2 Corinthians 11:27 mean?
A meaningful aim is paid for in exactly this coin. The man who has committed himself to something beyond his own comfort finds that the commitment costs him sleep, warmth, food, and ease.
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A meaningful aim is paid for in exactly this coin. The man who has committed himself to something beyond his own comfort finds that the commitment costs him sleep, warmth, food, and ease. He pays it because the aim is worth more to him than the comfort surrendered. Suffering chosen for a purpose is the opposite of suffering that merely lands on a man.
Here is a life spent rather than hoarded, hunger and cold accepted as the price of carrying something forward. The willingness to bear such deprivation is what separates a person who believes in his purpose from one who only talks about it. Anyone can want the destination. What proves the wanting is whether you will endure the road, and go hungry, and keep walking anyway.
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Live 2 Corinthians 11:27 today
- Pick the thing you say matters to you and do the uncomfortable twenty minutes of it today, before the easier options get their hands on your evening. Cost now, not later.
- Sit through one tiring conversation someone needs from you tonight without checking the time or the phone. Being spent on another person is the cheapest honest proof of care there is.
- When the week goes badly and the plan gets expensive, keep walking anyway at a smaller scale. Ten minutes kept on a bad day outweighs an hour on an easy one.
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